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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unaccompanied
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ A wide variety of activity holidays are provided including some special weeks for unaccompanied children.
▪ Morris Landlord, 36, the Etireno's second-in-command, said there had been no unaccompanied children on board.
▪ I understand that 250 unaccompanied children cost a social services department £5 million.
▪ The ship was carrying illegal migrants, not unaccompanied children, he said.
▪ It is not unusual for unaccompanied children to travel as refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Unaccompanied children are not allowed on the premises.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After half an hour, however, I am convinced that these chickadees are unaccompanied by any other birds.
▪ Harold was pleased that it had been arranged, but he did not arrive unaccompanied since Haines was with him.
▪ Many large Third World cities have arisen unaccompanied by national industrial growth.
▪ Morris Landlord, 36, the Etireno's second-in-command, said there had been no unaccompanied children on board.
▪ Most airlines charge an escort fee for unaccompanied minors.
▪ Most chanting is unaccompanied, often because no one is available with the required skill, especially to accompany plainsong.
▪ On the Overland Trail he discovered, as most unaccompanied men did, the rigors of housekeeping.
▪ Police, responding to security threats, will also be able to search non-residential premises and unaccompanied freight at ports.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unaccompanied

1540s, "not in the company of others, having no companions," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of accompany (v.). Musical sense "without instrumental accompaniment" is first recorded 1818.

Wiktionary
unaccompanied

a. 1 travelling without companions 2 (context music English) performed or scored without accompaniment; solo

WordNet
unaccompanied
  1. adj. without accompaniment or companions; "the soloist sang unaccompanied"; "it had dramatic energy unaccompanied by an adequate sense of dramatic form"; "unaccompanied women were excluded" [ant: accompanied]

  2. adv. without anybody else; "the child stayed home alone"; "he flew solo" [syn: alone, solo]

Usage examples of "unaccompanied".

The Mexican army was so completely scattered that their commander Arista fled unaccompanied across the Rio Grande.

I was sitting in my shirt-sleeves and eating the soup which had been served to me, when the governor came in unaccompanied.

It was a Sunday in early Summer when General Ople walked to morning service, unaccompanied by Elizabeth, who was unwell.

Simply to say that an animal is pairing the neutral act of pecking at something which is both green and round, unaccompanied by any such rewarding or aversive experience, is to say nothing other than that the animal, in remembering the bead, can recall various aspects of it, including colour and shape.

But when acute algesia is unaccompanied by any profounder phenomena they are undoubtedly able to bear it with a far greater show of resignation.

But Quentin had taken up his position on the left wing of the search party, along with Panax and the Elven Hunters Kian, Wye, and Rusten, and watched as an unaccompanied Walker made his way cautiously ahead.

In front of the bar were a half-dozen padded stools for unaccompanied drinkers who could, if they chose, pivot their seats around to survey the field.

Scarlett could not imagine her mother’s hands without her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life was to remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the house superintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the planta­tion.

Vanslyperken who had been walking the deck abaft, unaccompanied by his faithful attendant (for Snarleyyow remained coiled up on his master's bed), was meditating deeply how to gratify the two most powerful passions in our nature, love and revenge: at one moment thinking of the fat fair Vandersloosh, and of hauling in her guilders, at another reverting to the starved Smallbones and the comfort of a keel-hauling.

Then at the last minute, blessed if one of Daisy's aged relatives didn't croak, and since it would not have done for dear Lady Flashman to attend their foul house-party unaccompanied, I was dragooned cursing into service.

One of the stock men explained their behavior by telling her that an attractive unaccompanied female showed up at a cattle station about once every hundred years.

And the women had come to him to fill their dance cards, leaning into his shadow and working him, frankly, much like Megan had been working the unaccompanied politicians.

All the Wives in the park had turned to single-phase statues at the sight of the unaccompanied Witness.

This was refined misery, unheroic and humiliating, as suffering always is when unaccompanied by resignation.