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unchartered

unchartered

1 8.6
Not legally allowed to run a business or offer services
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈtʃɑːrtərd/
  • Formal
translation icon : no registrado
  • unchartered territory
  • unchartered waters

Examples

  • You're talking about unchartered territory.

  • So the boy decides to take off in his balloon and explore the vast unchartered regions of Africa and forget his only love.

  • - But instead, it entered an unchartered black hole, which flung it into an entirely unexpected region of the universe.

  • Going about clearly explaining this far-reaching and important, yet unchartered and nuanced subject has proven a tall task for us, as it is such an instrumental theme in the work that Visual Insight does.

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  • The researchers explored unchartered regions of the forest where no one had gone before.

  • Investing in unchartered businesses carries significant risks and challenges.

  • The company's strategy took them into unchartered market segments that were previously ignored.

Synonyms

unregistered
vsunchartered
25 4.8

Not recorded by an official body

lacks formal founding authorization rather than only missing official records
unincorporated
vsunchartered
  • Specialized
7 7.0

An area that does not have its own local government

lacks formal founding authorization rather than corporate status

Antonyms

1 5.6

Hired for temporary private use, often a vehicle like a bus or plane

How Chartered

chartered
1 5.6
unchartered
  • Formal
1 8.6

Surface Forms

unchartered positive

Morphology

unchartered = chartered (transparent) = un + charter + ed

The negative prefix 'un-' attached to 'chartered' straightforwardly yields 'not chartered', which learners can infer from knowing 'chartered' and the productive prefix 'un-'.

Etymology

Unchartered breaks into un- 'not' and charter, a word for a written 'paper' that gives official permission or rights, so it helps to imagine a missing document. So unchartered means lacking that official paper and not formally allowed or established.