untapped
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4.4
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtæpt/
:
inexplorado
- Thirdly, retailers have discovered the untapped buying power of the underserved inner-city market.
- untapped resources
- untapped potential
- untapped opportunities
We're all sitting atop massive reservoirs of untapped potential and ability.
- We're all sitting atop massive reservoirs of untapped potential and ability.
- So there was a huge pool of untapped talent.
- Our tax money spent that way while the Amudaria oil field is sitting there untapped largely for the duration of our presence there.
- I think I accept that there's so much untapped potential in me and that I'm not this kind of fully formed rigid lump of cells.
- We got got this greatness untapped motherfucking thing.
- Drop in Maple syrup consumption causes decline in industry, potentially causing deadly explosions of untapped trees.
- And then so I realized that I have an untapped, I mean, it's, it's, it's a source that's it can't be dried out.
Examples
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Others note that Pakistan contains enormous untapped coal reserves.
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This is an untapped demographic of buyers that we should be reaching.
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Any country or any company that leaves half of its population behind untapped is a mistake.
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Points to your talent and untapped potential.
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A lot of untapped resources.
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School district policies remain a largely untapped method for promoting the sun protection of children.
Academic text (2012) -
What might you identify as the greatest untapped resource in healthcare? The patient?
Academic text (2012) -
A goal of this study was to examine previously untapped sources of influence.
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Although the teachers played a major role in the reform, they were an untapped resource in the decision-making process.
Academic text (2010) -
Our European allies saw an investment opportunity in an untapped market to do business.
Synonyms
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6.5
A place not yet explored or mapped
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4.9
Not yet found or studied
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4.1
Land not yet used or built on
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6.3
Resources like land, minerals and energy that people do not use or develop
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5.6
Not used and left empty
Not studied enough to be well understood and may give new information
How Used
Surface Forms
Morphology
untapped = tapped (transparent) = un + tap + ed
Formed by productive prefixation (un- 'not') to 'tapped' and the meaning 'not used' is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word untapped comes from un- 'not' and tap 'to make a hole in a barrel to get liquid', so imagine a beer barrel that has not been opened and is still full. That's why untapped means something, like a skill or resource, that has not yet been used or developed.