unpoliced

Examples

• All

• Many communities in the countryside feel vulnerable because they are often unpoliced and lacking in law enforcement.

• People that learn where the ethical landscape that we describe to ourselves, where on that landscape there are opportunities that are unpoliced, actually come out ahead.

  Big Think

• He has put himself in a position to let himself go, unpoliced, where he always wanted to go, while pleasing his core audience by broadcasting a signal they are equipped to receive, satisfying their demand for blues that rocks.

  Academic text (2002)

• Cybernetics' dissemination looks a lot like culture's—taken up across nearly every discipline, attenuated by circulation, unpoliced by classic disciplinary modes of ownership and exclusion.

  Academic text (2010)

• The remote area was known for being largely unpoliced, making it a haven for illegal activities.

• His property sits in a district that is largely unpoliced, leading to concerns about safety.

Synonyms

U

unsupervised

vsunpoliced

21 4.2

Not watched by an adult or person in charge

is about lack of official agency oversight rather than no person in charge

U

unguarded

vsunpoliced

11 5.2

Not watched or protected so someone can take it

focuses on missing official agency control rather than exposure to physical danger

U

unmonitored

vsunpoliced

2 4.6

No one watches or checks it

is about missing oversight by official agencies rather than general absence of checks

U

unwatched

vsunpoliced

1 3.9

Without anyone watching or looking after it

is about lack of official agency oversight rather than simply not being seen

U

unpatrolled

vsunpoliced

6.5

An area without guards or patrols watching it

is about absence of official agency oversight rather than general lack of observation

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology