Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not owned; having no known owner; not claimed.
- Not avowed; not acknowledged as one's own; not admitted as done by one's self; unconfessed: as, unowned faults.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not owned; having no owner.
- adjective Not acknowledged; not avowed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
owned , not having anowner . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unown .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no owner
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Examples
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But maybe things are different in other states, and their airports are in some kind of unowned status whereby state law would not apply?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges for the White House State Dinner Crashers? 2009
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Start thinking of property as all the property of individuals, unjustly acquired property or unowned property.
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So somebody dumped waste in Somali waters and somebody else "stole" the unowned fish.
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At first it was patches and sections of land here and there; but as the weeks passed it was the unowned portions that became rare, until at last they stood as islands surrounded by Daylight's land.
Chapter XVI 2010
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Time for a complete house cleaning, replace them all with unowned independents this next two times around.
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Start thinking of property as all the property of individuals, unjustly acquired property or unowned property.
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In the almost lottery-like scramble for the ownership of vast unowned natural resources, and in the exploitation of which there was little or no competition of capital, (the capital itself rising out of the exploitation), the capable, intelligent member of the working class found a field in which to use his brains to his own advancement.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010
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We feel that those who care for cats -- both animal advocates and the 10 million householders who feed stray cats -- and those who care for birds would agree that we must find a humane way to reduce the number of unowned and homeless cats.
Wayne Pacelle: Report Calling for Killing of Feral Cats Is Dangerous Shot in the Dark Wayne Pacelle 2010
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We feel that those who care for cats -- both animal advocates and the 10 million householders who feed stray cats -- and those who care for birds would agree that we must find a humane way to reduce the number of unowned and homeless cats.
Wayne Pacelle: Report Calling for Killing of Feral Cats Is Dangerous Shot in the Dark Wayne Pacelle 2010
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We feel that those who care for cats -- both animal advocates and the 10 million householders who feed stray cats -- and those who care for birds would agree that we must find a humane way to reduce the number of unowned and homeless cats.
Wayne Pacelle: Report Calling for Killing of Feral Cats Is Dangerous Shot in the Dark Wayne Pacelle 2010
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