unaccounted
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈkaʊntɪd/
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no contabilizado
- Last time I checked, there's at least 20 unaccounted for.
- unaccounted-for water
Suppose there's another planet unaccounted for in our equations, tugging on it.
- Suppose there's another planet unaccounted for in our equations, tugging on it.
- And he was seeing that all this money was going unaccounted for to these companies.
- And on the top of that, there was a question of the nuclear weapons, unaccounted nuclear weapons.
Examples
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After the audit, several unaccounted expenses were identified that needed further investigation.
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In other words, there is a lot of unaccounted black money floating around, and while numbers look bleak, they don't reflect reality.
Blog text (3) -
And he was seeing that all this money was going unaccounted for to these companies.
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars of unaccounted-for cash.
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Households earn unaccounted money either through business (buying and selling in cash), real estate, or other asset sales.
Blog text (14) -
The rationale is that the low flow meter sizes often fall behind in their registration, causing the utility to have an increased amount of unaccounted-for water and resulting in a loss of revenue.
Academic text (2003) -
Now, though, he rejoiced in these unaccounted-for seconds because they gave him just enough time to jump up, turn off the television, smooth out the part of his mother's bed he had been lying on, and sprint out of her room into his, where he would jump into bed with his heart pounding and immediately pretend to be asleep.
Fiction book (1995) -
What has hurt the President is not the economy per se: it's the racism, the pandering, the culture wars, the divisiveness, and the attempt to divide the middle class against itself by the other party, backed by billions of dollars of unaccounted-for money from vested interests.
Blog text (4) -
The accountant noticed that there was a significant amount of unaccounted cash in the financial records.
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The investigation revealed unaccounted items in the warehouse that were never recorded in the inventory.
Synonyms
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4.8
No one knows the cause
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6.6
Cannot be found or connected to where it started
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3.9
Not written down in official papers
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6.5
Not listed in an official record such as a museum book or database
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6.9
Not found even after people tried to find it
An action not recorded in a system or record
Not on an official list
People or places are not counted in an official count
Not yet counted or included in the total
Not watched, followed, or recorded so people cannot see its progress
How Recorded
Surface Forms
Morphology
unaccounted = accounted (transparent) = un + account + ed
The negative prefix 'un-' applied to 'accounted' yields the clear meaning 'not recorded, included, or explained'.
Etymology
Unaccounted comes from un- ('not') and account ('a record' or 'a count'), the same idea you see in the words account and count. So, something unaccounted is 'not on the list' or 'not explained', meaning it was not included, tracked, or shown in the records.