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unregistered
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
▪ Or does it extend to an unregistered company?
▪ The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision.
▪ It is clear that not all the insolvency procedures are applicable to unregistered companies.
▪ Section 221 provides that an unregistered company may be wound up under the Act.
conveyancing
▪ Inhibitions are rare except for a bankruptcy inhibition, which serves the same purpose as a land charge in unregistered conveyancing.
▪ As in unregistered conveyancing, it would avoid argument if this is specifically mentioned in any court order.
land
▪ In the case of unregistered land this description should be by reference to an attached plan.
▪ In general, the persons or bodies with an interest to protect in unregistered land will effect registration.
▪ This particularly related to unregistered land.
▪ Every buyer, lessee and mortgagee of unregistered land from a company before exchange of contracts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unregistered stocks and bonds
unregistered voters
▪ an unregistered gun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However it is difficult to estimate the unregistered animals.
▪ Send the epitome or abstract of an unregistered title, or Office Copy Entries and filed plan with the draft contract.
▪ The Product must have been updated before it can be used by this option, and must still be unregistered.
▪ The unemployed, then, are broadly defined to include the unregistered unemployed, particularly women.
▪ This may not be so where the title is unregistered.
▪ Traders and other private entrepreneurs also signed up in order to supplement their unregistered incomes.
▪ When dealing with unregistered agricultural land, it will take time to examine the title carefully.
Wiktionary
unregistered

Etymology 1

  1. Not registered. Etymology 2

    v

  2. (en-past of: unregister)

WordNet
unregistered
  1. adj. (of animals) not recorded with or certified by an official breed association; "unregistered dairy cattle" [ant: registered]

  2. not registered; "an unregistered citizen" [ant: registered]

  3. not filed or recorded in the place prescribed by law; "an unregistered trademark"; "an unregistered mortgage" [syn: unfiled]

  4. (a boat or vessel) not furnished with official documents

Usage examples of "unregistered".

Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment.

We had had to wait a day in Srinagar because of news that a police patrol was coming in along the Ladakh road, and to have met the police would have been inconvenient, to say the least of it, if only because we had unregistered firearms hidden in our packs.

Of all the hundreds of millions of inhabitants of Appalachia, only Joseph Quellen, CrimeSec, had had the cleverness to find a bit of unknown and unregistered land in the heart of Africa and build himself a second home there.

Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment.

Had the authorities missed unregistered disciples who were even now wandering about the Commonwealth, intent on resurrecting that long quiescent, notorious research?

It probably was, he told himself as he coded into the secured room that held his unregistered equipment.

They never spoke about the Ring, or where the unregistered stones came from, or how the finished gems were sent to Switzerland.

However, a day came when there was heard out in the street a very frightening noise of voices, rattling chains, and heavily tramping boots, which brought them to their window, and they saw a company of imperial officers coming to scout out unregistered aliens.

After much coaxing by Corporal Freeman and other members of the State Police, the Jackson County Prosecutor told Freeman to get warrants against Fleisher in Albion for possession of unregistered guns, receiving and aiding in the concealment of a stolen car, and possession of burglary tools.

THROUGH this evenings tide of faces unregistered, unrecognized, amid hurrying black shoes, furled umbrellas, the crowd descending like a single organism into the stations airless heart, comes Shinya Yamazaki, his notebook clasped beneath his arm like the egg case of some modest but moderately successful marine species.

The plexus executes a search for unregistered programs every thirty seconds and evicts any that it finds.

The registered doctors and surgeons were hard put to it to compete with the unregistered.

He had taken half a million in cash, stocks, and bonds, unregistered and hence easily hypothecated and traded on.

We had only moved from the couple's house when we heard that unregistered civilians, and those sheltering them, would be sent to internment camps if captured.

Vivi, deciding that they should use a half-bred unregistered throw-out as their entry to the sales, had bought one from a knacker's yard for peanuts.