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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unplaced
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 Stakes at Randwick.
▪ At the meeting the Principal recounted to us the statistical facts about the unplaced special students in our classes.
▪ He dropped to second class in the examinations of June 1788, and after that was unplaced.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unplaced

Unplaced \Un*placed"\, a. Not placed.

Wiktionary
unplaced

a. 1 Not assigned a place. 2 (context horse racing English) Not among the first three horses to finish a race.

WordNet
unplaced

adj. not one of the first three in a race or competition

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.