Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not furnished with funds.
- adjective Having a maturity of shorter than one year.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not funded; floating: as, an unfunded debt. See
fund , transitive verb, and funded.
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- adjective Not
funded ; having received nofunding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not furnished with funds
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term unfunded tax cut suggests that its the government's money and the public are lucky to get some back.
The Sun Says - will David Cameron listen? Dylan Jones-Evans 2008
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Rather, his amendment was designed to avoid imposing on these organizations the costs of implementing a DNS blacklist, which he described as an unfunded mandate.
Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011
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Doseck says he'd have to hire 47 more employees and build eight new classrooms to comply with what he calls unfunded mandates.
News for NBC4i.com 2009
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To claim you have funded a plan while leaving it effectively unfunded is dishonest!
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The difference is what we call the unfunded liabilities or $U.
Comment of the Week, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I'll believe it will be there when someone can tell me how they're going to come up with the TRILLIONS in unfunded liability.
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Currently the minimum direct costs of Iraq and Afghanistan are one trillion, ninety billion dollars in unfunded costs.
Tom Hayden: The Peace Corps at Fifty Tom Hayden 2010
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Of course, the card that both Democrats and Republicans have been palming is the $Trillions in unfunded guarantees and loans that the Fed has been making.
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And I want to know how the TRILLIONS in unfunded Medicare liability is going to be addressed.
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McConnell said he thought the White House was "in denial" about the long-term unfunded debts the country is racking up in entitlement programs such as Social Security, combined with the $1.6 trillion deficit the country is running this year.
Congressional leaders show few signs of compromise as budget showdown looms 2011
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