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Unapproved

Unapproved \Un`ap*proved"\, a.

  1. Not approved.

  2. Not proved. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unapproved

early 15c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of approve (v.).

Wiktionary
unapproved

a. Not approved

Usage examples of "unapproved".

An order by an Area Rent Director reducing an unapproved rental and requiring the landlord to refund the excess previously collected, was held, with one dissenting vote, not to be the type of retroactivity which is condemned by law.

Despite the fact that Mink is now a carefully observed person, one of the volunteers manages to slip through the screen of watchfulness and begins a program of more or less unsupervised human experimentation, using a drug that is totally unknown, untested and unapproved, with side effects that could beach a whale.

Meanwhile, they could file for another rate increase and do it all over again, thus pancaking unapproved rates on top of one another.

Instead of the usual collection of disinterested cargo inspectors in their turbans and rust-colored ponchos, four alert soldiers in First City's emerald-and-beige cloaks blocked traffic and searched under tarpaulins for any unapproved or unlevied goods.