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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unlisted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
security
▪ It covers trading in all listed and unlisted securities, gilts, and other fixed interest securities on the London Stock Exchange.
▪ Special provisions also apply to advertisements for listed and unlisted securities.
telephone
▪ He could suggest to Virginia Stillman that she get an unlisted telephone number.
▪ A recent survey of unlisted telephone use in the United States shows that Californians value their right to privacy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unlisted phone number
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A recent survey of unlisted telephone use in the United States shows that Californians value their right to privacy.
▪ An elderly lady in doubtful health, she was terrified, particularly when the calls continued after her unlisted number was changed.
▪ Demolition in conservation areas Permission is also needed to demolish an unlisted church in a conservation area.
▪ He could suggest to Virginia Stillman that she get an unlisted telephone number.
▪ Her ex-husband, who has an unlisted number, declines through her to comment.
▪ It covers trading in all listed and unlisted securities, gilts, and other fixed interest securities on the London Stock Exchange.
▪ The state had sought automatic blocking of the numbers for callers with unlisted phone numbers.
▪ This has resulted in several of the unlisted equity stakes being valued at a big discount to the quoted investments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unlisted

Unlisted \Un*list"ed\, a. Not listed; specif.

  1. (New York Stock Exchange), admitted to quotation in the unlisted department, that is, admitted to be dealt in on the floor, but not to the ``regular list.''

  2. not listed in the telephone directory; -- of telephone numbers; as, an unlisted number.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unlisted

1640s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of list (v.). In reference to stocks, attested from 1905; of phone numbers, from 1937 (American English).

Wiktionary
unlisted

  1. 1 Not included in a list. 2 # Not listed in the telephone directory. 3 # Not traded on the stock exchange; not being a listed company. 4 # (cx UK of a building English) Not officially protected from demolition or alteration. v

  2. (en-past of: unlist)

WordNet
unlisted

  1. adj. not on a list; "an unlisted telephone number" [ant: listed]

  2. not having your name entered on a voting list; "an unlisted voter"

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Usage examples of "unlisted".

With it she was not only able to find out a new, unlisted phone number, but was able to do it in the middle of a wintry night, sending a telephone switchman chasing across town for her.

If there are more Kicking Deers in the area, they all have unlisted phone numbers and live uninteresting lives.

The number that Mata had dialed was the same unlisted number that Johnny the waiter had called from The Cave.

Any decent phreaker board expected its members to contribute: passwords, newly discovered bugs, the unlisted dial- in numbers of computer systems.

He knew that no one in the squad room would have given his home number to a civilian, and he further knew that the number was unlisted in the Riverhead directory.

The Stoners had an unlisted number that only a few people had access to.

I picked up the telephone and dialed the Ann Arbor, Michigan, telephone number given in the file, which was noted as unlisted.

Signals passed four different unlisted numbers with a Beltway area code and a master number, in case they were disconnected.

Her private residence, as well as her father's home in San Clemente, had unlisted numbers.

I switched on my cell phone again and keyed in the number for the unlisted back line that went directly to the broadcasting booth at KBAY, the biggest radio station in Santa Rosita County, where Sasha Good all was currently the disc jockey on the midnight-to-six air shift.

He quickly gets the remaining home phone numbers and addresses of the unlisted academics from the records held at the Exhibition Building by the Russell Street police, where copies of all driving licences are kept and where all medical practitioners must register their home phone numbers.

He made us go ex-directory for a start, said being' unlisted was the done thing.

After a while he sat back and gave me an address on Denton in Hamtramck and an unlisted telephone number.

But my researcher discovered the Kingdom of Samo, unlisted in most references, and since my lead character for that chapter was Sam, I couldn't resist.

He just got some nice little extras all in things he and his family could enjoy but we wouldn't particularly notice, and for that he got a message slip passed into his pocket now and then that a shipment-he didn't even know what it was, nor cared-would be with so-and-so as unlisted or misaddressed cargo.