unratified
- adjective
- /ʌnˈrætɪfaɪd/
- Formal
:
no ratificado
- Despite the negotiations, the proposed amendment is still unratified by the governing body.
- remains unratified
Examples
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The unratified SALT II treaty would expire on December 31.
Academic text (1990) -
The compact remains unratified because the fear of uncontrolled immigration has gotten the better of integrationist intentions.
Academic text (1993) -
Today, for instance, the services deal remains unratified.
Academic text (2015) -
Let's save the unratified ones for another day.
Blog text (4) -
The executive order stipulated that the reservation was created in lieu of the proposed Lemhi reservation agreed to under the unratified treaty signed in September 1868 at Virginia City between Lemhi leaders and Montana Territory officials.
Academic text (2000) -
As long as the Constitutional Treaty—which would centralize the Justice and Home Affairs portfolios so that European Union institutions and law would become paramount to state law in these cases—remains unratified, this is not likely to change.
Academic text (2008) -
And (as my next posts will explain) transnationalist judges, at the urging of transnationalist activists, will rely on unratified treaties to reinvent what provisions of the Constitution mean.
Blog text (2) -
The peace agreement remains unratified, preventing any progress toward resolution of the conflict.
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Due to political disagreements, many important treaties remain unratified and lack legal force.
Synonyms
Not carried out or finished, for example a contract not signed
Antonyms
How Ratified
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unratified is made of un- meaning 'not' and ratify meaning 'to make official', and ratify is like the word rational, which is about 'reason' or careful thought. So, an unratified treaty is 'not officially approved' and has no legal force.