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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmet
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
need
▪ Efficiency should mean taking into full account the quality of services, including their ability to develop in response to unmet needs.
▪ Change creates unmet needs by creating new interfaces.
▪ So where are the unmet needs in and around your own organization?
▪ Because interfaces juxtapose value systems, assumptions, needs, and languages, they create unmet needs.
▪ Change creates unmet needs by introducing new technological or economic possibilities waiting to be capitalized on.
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unmet expectations
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because interfaces juxtapose value systems, assumptions, needs, and languages, they create unmet needs.
▪ Change creates unmet needs by creating new interfaces.
▪ Change creates unmet needs by introducing new technological or economic possibilities waiting to be capitalized on.
▪ Efficiency should mean taking into full account the quality of services, including their ability to develop in response to unmet needs.
▪ Fixares says an unmet publishing schedule led to the omission of some information.
▪ So where are the unmet needs in and around your own organization?
▪ The vendor-minded employee must develop an eye for unmet needs.
▪ Unemployment then rises, land and other resources are underused, and local needs are unmet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmet

c.1600, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of meet (v.).

Wiktionary
unmet

a. Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved; fallen short of.

Usage examples of "unmet".

Why grant money now, so nerdish scientists talking incomprehensible gibberish can indulge their hobbies, when there are urgent unmet national needs?

Green Men who have poured out of their barges and feluccas and flimsy sailing ships from Ocean Tethys and the Valles Marineris Inland Sea and who stand witness here this day for reasons known only to themselves, and perhaps to their avatar Prospero or the unmet god called Setebos.