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Not in the first three
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unplaced
Word definitions for unplaced in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another Darlington student, Gillian Elders, 19, got through to the final in the kitchen design section but was unplaced . ▪ As a three-year-old he was unplaced in his first four races then ran a good second in the Chelmsford ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not one of the first three in a race or competition
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unplaced \Un*placed"\, a. Not placed.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not assigned a place. 2 (context horse racing English) Not among the first three horses to finish a race.
Usage examples of unplaced.
Ridgeway was trained for flat races by Ronald Streat of Pusey, but was unplaced in all his four races that summer.
Humber of Posset, County Durham, remained three months, ran twice unplaced in maiden hurdles, subsequently sold again, at Doncaster, being bought for 600 guineas by N.
He came out of there, his sixth novel still unplaced, but with a new job, that of Special Director of the Tantalus Press, where he went on to work about a day a week, soliciting and marking up illiterate novels, total-recall autobiographies in which no one ever went anywhere or did anything, collections of primitive verse, very long laments for dead relatives (and pets and plants), crackpot scientific treatises and, increasingly, it seemed to him, "found" dramatic monologues about manic depression and schizophrenia.
He had known Victory Smith since the day she came into Lands Command, a spanking new junior lieutenant, a lady with an unplaced name and an undisguisable youthfulness.
During his years of traveling, his worst complaints involved poor housekeeping, unplaced wake-up calls, and lousy food in the coffee shop.