unserviced
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈsɜrvɪst/
:
sin servicios
- Many families in the unserviced neighborhoods lack access to basic utilities like water and electricity.
Examples
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The real price of serviced and unserviced residential plots increased by 21% and 37% per year respectively between 1988 and 1990.
Academic text (1992) -
Such minor needs frequently go unserviced, but MUDs would allow participants from several schools to pool resources and meet without having to leave their schools.
Academic text (1998) -
His business was shut down, his obligations went unserviced, and his property foreclosed as a result of malicious prosecution.
Blog text (2) -
The focus in the next section of this article will be on Iraq's indebtedness that began during the 1980s, deepened in the 1990s, and may remain unserviced for decades to come.
Academic text (2001) -
After the house was erected, the wife again concentrated her energies on domestic tasks, which, in unserviced districts, were more than sufficiently onerous (Harris 1991b).
Academic text (1991) -
The unserviced areas of the city often struggle to attract investment and resources.
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Residents of the unserviced apartment complex are petitioning for better maintenance and support.
Antonyms
How Serviced
Surface Forms
Morphology
unserviced = serviced (transparent) = un + service + ed
Formed by adding the negation prefix 'un-' to 'serviced' to indicate lacking services; the relation is directly inferable.
Etymology
Unserviced is made of un- meaning 'not' and service meaning 'help or maintenance'. So, unserviced describes something, like a loan or a machine, that is 'not given the usual care or support'.