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Definition: UNAPPROVED |
UNAPPROVEDAdjective1. Not proved. 2. Not approved. |
Date "UNAPPROVED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: UNAPPROVED |
| Specialty definitions using "UNAPPROVED": Cross-Connection ♦ inews, INSPECTOR, HEATING AND REFRIGERATION ♦ PLAN CHECKER. (references) |
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Health | Drugs such as amphetamines and thyroid derivatives are unsafe and unapproved. (references) | |
The staff explains the steps to follow in requesting access to unapproved products. (references) | ||
For example, a kidney cancer patient called recently asking for access to an unapproved biologic therapy. (references) | ||
Business | All approved food additives are listed in the Korea Food Additive Code and unapproved materials must go through the proper channels for code listing. (references) | |
When KFDA approves an ingredient, it also sets standard specifications of each ingredient and specific types of food products it can or cannot be used for. Even if an ingredient is approved, it cannot be used for unapproved product types. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | In September the Ghana Education Service (GES) froze all fees charged by Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) for all unapproved items. (references) |
Civil Liberties | China | Offenses related to membership in unapproved religious groups are classified as crimes of disturbing the social order. (references) |
China | Authorities in some areas continued a concerted effort to crack down on the activities of unapproved Catholic and Protestant churches. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | Akhmadalieva was held for 2 months without charges, before being charged with possessing unapproved Islamist literature. (references) |
Political Economy | China | Unapproved religious groups, including Protestant and Catholic groups and members of nontraditional religious groups, continued to experience varying degrees of official interference, harassment, and repression. (references) |
China | In some areas, authorities guided by national policy made strong efforts to control the activities of unapproved Catholic and Protestant churches; religious services were broken up and church leaders or adherents were harassed, and, at times, fined, detained, beaten, and tortured. (references) | |
Trade | Ghana | Improperly identified food and drugs are held for testing by the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) where approved goods are released upon payment of a fine and unapproved goods are confiscated for disposal. (references) |
Japan | Approval is generally required to sell a product or even to display it in a trade event; unapproved medical equipment may be displayed if accompanied by a sign indicating that the product is not yet approved for sale. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "UNAPPROVED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNAPPROVED" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drug unapproved | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "UNAPPROVED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i paaprovuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неодобрен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | nicht genehmigt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無認可 (lack of approval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むに"か (lack of approval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | approvedunay неутвержденный. (various references) onaylanmamış (unacknowledged, unattested, uncertified, unconfirmed, unrecognized, unsanctioned), izin verilmemiş. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"UNAPPROVED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unapprove, unapprovedd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "UNAPPROVED" (pronounced u'nupruw"vd) |
| 6 | -u p r uw" v d | approved, disapproved. |
| 5 | -p r uw" v d | disproved, improved, proved, unimproved, unproved. |
| 3 | -uw" v d | moved, removed, unmoved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-p-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: approved, unproved, vapoured. | |
-3 letters: approve, aproned, operand, padrone, pandore, pandour, parvenu, pounder, propane, propend, rondeau, undrape, unpaved, unroped, vapored. | |
-4 letters: append, around, dapper, devour, enduro, napped, napper, pander, pardon, pauper, ponder, poured, proved, proven, pruned, rapped, rappen, repand, rouped, undoer, unread, unrove, updove, vapour, vendor. | |
-5 letters: adore, adorn, anode, apron, arpen, daven, denar, devon. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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