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View synonyms for unused

unused

[ uhn-yoozd uhn-yoost ]

adjective

  1. not used; use; not put to use:

    an unused room.

  2. never having been used: use:

    an unused postage stamp.

  3. not accustomed:

    unused to cold winters.



unused

adjective

  1. ʌnˈjuːzd not being or never having been made use of
  2. ʌnˈjuːst postpositivefoll byto not accustomed or used (to something)
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of unused1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; un- 1, used
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Example Sentences

Full-time workers accrue 13 sick leave days per year with no limit on carrying unused leave year to year.

In some contracts, unused sick days were instead awarded as paid time off.

So in 2014, at age 48, Caruso retired with a payout of $342,000, which included his unused sick and vacation time and a three-month “terminal leave” payment to mark the end of his career.

Katrina Lipinsky told the Philadelphia Inquirer and WHYY that she wasn’t asked for her medical credentials before she began administering vaccine doses, and that plenty of unused doses were left over after seniors were turned away on Saturday.

The situation deepened anxiety among providers and state officials about requesting doses that might ultimately go unused, potentially endangering their future supplies.

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

Life-saving vaccines for those illnesses and others are—without enough medical workers to disburse them—going unused.

But like those old cards, some of the data goes unused, although I occasionally browse through it and show it off to friends.

Ex-candidates cannot spend unused campaign money on themselves.

For 27 years, the 105 floors of Ryugyong Hotel, a monstrous three-winged, glass-and-concrete pyramid, have gone unused.

Happening to cast his eyes that way, he saw a light where he had never seen one before—in the little unused chapel.

A horse unused to it will sometimes stand shivering instead of taking his rider out of danger.

The Koreans call this noise kang-siong, and it seems almost deafening to one unused to it.

Monsieur and Madame Pujol had a sacred museum of these unused objects—the pride of their lives.

Evidently many of the rooms had for years been unused, but, as Mrs. Winkley had said, everything was "in perfect condition."

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