undocumented
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- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈdɑːkjʊˌmɛntɪd/
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indocumentado
- Tragically, these citizen children of undocumented parents are being forced out of the only homeland they have ever known.
- undocumented immigrants
- undocumented workers
- undocumented migrants
I'm Ernesto Rocha and I am a proud undocumented storyteller.
- I'm Ernesto Rocha and I am a proud undocumented storyteller.
- You see, being undocumented isn't just about being denied a driver's license or college.
- But what I ended up finding is that more than half of the respondents in LA were undocumented and that included the long term immigrants.
- We might deter undocumented hiring more by requiring employers to pay employees three times what they promised.
- And, and it was essentially to, to raise revenue in this city where a lot of the, the population is, is undocumented.
- Mostly these are undocumented immigrants, are young people of working age.
- It's like, did we both know people who are like, for sure autistic and they just, yeah, yeah, undocumented autistic, get them out of the country?
- But we do need a wall in the populated places that where immigrants can, undocumented immigrants can, can disappear very, very quickly.
- But we do need a wall in the populated places on that where immigrants can, undocumented immigrants can, can disappear very, very quickly.
Examples
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Many undocumented immigrants struggle to find legitimate work due to their lack of legal status.
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I work for an NGO that represents undocumented aliens.
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Do you know how many undocumented patients come into the hospital where I work?
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Five out of six undocumented families with children are in this category.
Academic text (2012) -
Mostly these are undocumented immigrants, are young people of working age.
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Florida considers bill to roll back child labor laws to fill jobs once held by undocumented migrants.
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There is a wide variation in the estimates of undocumented immigrants from the Caribbean region.
Academic text (2008) -
You see, being undocumented isn't just about being denied a driver's license or college.
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Undocumented workers in fear of deportation seek sanctuary in a church.
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First, businessmen protested, and second, undocumented workers began leaving Arizona for other parts of the country.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
Without official identity or immigration papers
Antonyms
Compounds
How Documented
Surface Forms
Morphology
undocumented = documented (transparent) = un + document + ed
Formed by adding the productive negation prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'documented', so meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
Undocumented comes from the un- part meaning 'not' and document meaning 'official paper'. So undocumented means 'not having official papers', which is why we use it for people who do not have the legal papers to live or work in a country.