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unsold

British  
/ ʌnˈsəʊld /

adjective

  1. not sold

    quantities of unsold stock

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Private equity faces a global bottleneck of nearly 33,000 unsold portfolio companies, straining fundraising and investor relations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

In a good sign for the economy, a trio of reports on business investment, home building and inventories of unsold goods all showed surprising strength in March.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

Eleclink is already tracking 4% ahead of full-year consensus, with 11% of capacity still unsold, Cullinane adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Tickets also remain available for more than a third of the 72 group-stage games and many of the expensive hospitality packages are unsold.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

By mid-December, Haldar cleared all the unsold merchandise off the shelves of his beauty shop and hauled them in boxes up to the storage room.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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