unincorporated
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- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈkɔːrpəreɪtɪd/
- Specialized
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no incorporado
- Pennoyer School proudly educates children from parts of Norridge, Harwood Heights, and unincorporated Norwood Park Township.
- unincorporated areas
- unincorporated communities
What if unincorporated humans, unincorporated humans.
- What if unincorporated humans, unincorporated humans.
Examples
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Utah is just this massive unincorporated territory still inhabited by by Native Americans.
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In poor suburbs and unincorporated districts, as well as in the city itself, regulations were few and often unenforced.
Academic text (1994) -
The lack of regulation was a key attraction of unincorporated areas.
Academic text (1994) -
About 40 percent would go to cities and unincorporated areas for local stormwater improvement projects.
Blog text (8) -
One county dominates the district that serves nine principal communities and vast unincorporated areas.
Academic text (2003) -
That's part of about 800 homes estimated to be damaged in unincorporated Jackson County, he said.
Blog text (6) -
Smart Growth zoning policies irritate me, but I live in an unincorporated area.
Blog text (5) -
Immediately east of the park boundary is a recently developed subdivision and the small unincorporated town of Argyle.
Academic text (1998) -
Sacramento County includes seven incorporated cities, a large unincorporated area, and nearly 7,000 retail food businesses.
Academic text (2009) -
Many families choose to live in an unincorporated area to avoid city regulations.
Synonyms
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Not legally allowed to run a business or offer services
Not part of a company, often a small business or a person working alone
Antonyms
How Incorporated
Surface Forms
Morphology
unincorporated = incorporated (transparent) = un + incorporate + ed
The adjective 'incorporated' is negated by the productive English prefix 'un-', yielding the clear meaning 'not incorporated'.
Etymology
Unincorporated begins with un- meaning 'not' and contains corporate, from a root meaning 'body' or 'group'. So an unincorporated place is 'not made into a legal body', which is why small towns or areas without their own city government are called unincorporated.