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Definition: Unannounced |
UnannouncedAdjective1. Without warning or announcement; "they arrived unannounced"; "a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night"- M.A.D.Howe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unannounced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Synonyms: UnannouncedSynonyms: unheralded (adj), unpredicted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unannounced |
| English words defined with "unannounced": plump in, potluck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unannounced": floor plan adjuster ♦ INVESTIGATOR, DEALER ACCOUNTS ♦ limited frequency unannounced access ♦ Partners in Quality ♦ Qualified Through Verification ♦ Saddle. (references) |
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Lyrics | You come, over unannounced (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | The Government typically held unannounced trials of alleged religious extremists. (references) |
Ukraine | Unlike in previous years, there were no reports that the State Committee for Information Policy warned periodicals against fomenting ethnic tensions and conducting antistate propaganda or that the Government targeted opposition newspapers with unannounced inspections or fire and building code inspections. (references) | |
Economic History | Qatar | Reportedly, there were cases in the 1980's when some Government employees were dismissed due to unannounced acts of corruption. (references) |
Human Rights | Paraguay | Amnesty International and UNICEF, along with government officials and diplomatic representatives, have been granted access to prisons on announced and unannounced visits. (references) |
Poland | During the year, the Human Rights Ombudsmen monitored 16 detention facilities, and the Helsinki Foundation visited 2 facilities; all of the visits were unannounced prior to the visit. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Local justices of the peace regularly inspect prisons, but these visits rarely are unannounced, and justices of the peace speak with prisoners in the presence of Correctional Services Department staff. (references) | |
Political Economy | SPAIN | It includes provisions that allow for unannounced searches in civil lawsuits and searches to take place under these provisions. (references) |
PORTUGAL | Portugal has a regular system of unannounced inspections of firms by the Inspectorate General of Labor to check for the illegal employment of minors. (references) | |
PORTUGAL | To fight this phenomenon, the Government of Portugal has begun a program of unannounced inspections involving representatives of the Inspectorate General of Labor, the Social Security Inspection Services, and a representative of the court. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Lesotho | Labor inspectors generally conducted unannounced inspections in factories four times per year. (references) |
Peru | The Ministry of Labor employs a force of 150 inspectors to carry out unannounced visits throughout the country. (references) | |
Algeria | Inspectors from the Ministry of Labor enforce the minimum employment age by making periodic or unannounced inspection visits to public sector enterprises. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unannounced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unannounced" is used about 96 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% | 96 | 33,456 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unannounced": limited frequency unannounced access ♦ unannounced basis/on an. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "unannounced": as-yet-unannounced, still-unannounced, yet-unannounced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
unannounced | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unannounced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i ardhur pa paralajmërim. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | без да бъде съобщен, без да бъде обявен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 未宣布. (various references) | |
Czech | neohlášený (impromptu). (various references) | |
Danish | uanmeldt undersoegelse (unannounced audit), uanmeldt inspektion (unannounced inspection), limited frequency unannounced access (LFUA, limited frequency unannounced access), LFUA (LFUA, limited frequency unannounced access). (various references) | |
Dutch | slechts met beperkte regelmaat uitgevoerd onaangekondigde bezoek (LFUA, limited frequency unannounced access), onaangekondigde inspectie (unannounced inspection), onaangekondigde controle (unannounced audit), onaangekondigd onderzoek (unannounced audit), LFUA (LFUA, limited frequency unannounced access). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilmoittomaton (unstated). (various references) | |
French | inspection inopinée (unannounced inspection), improviste/ l' (unannounced basis/on an), exercice-surprise d'évacuation (unannounced fire drill), exercice d'incendie inopiné (unannounced fire drill), enquête inopinée (unannounced audit), droit d'accès inopiné faible frequence (limited frequency unannounced access), contrôle inopiné (unannounced test), contrôle l'improviste (unannounced test), audit inopiné (unannounced audit), accès inopiné fréquence limitée (limited frequency unannounced access). (various references) | |
German | unangemeldet (unced, unenriched, unexpected, without an appointment). (various references) | |
Greek | απροειδοποίητοσ (not informed, unwarned). (various references) | |
Hungarian | be nem jelentett (undeclared, unheralded). (various references) | |
Italian | verifica ispettiva non preannunciata (unannounced audit), ispezione non preannunciata (unannounced inspection), audit non preannunciato (unannounced audit), accesso senza preavviso a frequenza limitata (LFUA, limited frequency unannounced access). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 推参 (paying an unannounced visit, rudeness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいさ" (cooking, estimation, fisheries, marine products, paying an unannounced visit, rudeness). (various references) | |
Manx | neuinshit (unannounced as news, undivulged). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | announcedunay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem ser anunciado. (various references) | |
Russian | не заявленный, без объявления. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neproglašen, neotkriven (undetected, undisclosed, undiscovered), neobjavljen (inedited, unpublished), neobelodanjen (undisclosed), nenajavljen. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin ser anunciado, no anunciado. (various references) | |
Swedish | oanmäld. (various references) | |
Turkish | habersiz (ignorant, in the dark, insensible, insensible of, not knowing, oblivious, unaware, unbeknown, unbeknownst, unconscious, uninformed, unknowing, unwitting, without notice), haber verilmemiş (uninformed), duyurulmamış, bildirilmemiş (undeclared), beklenmedik (abrupt, adventitious, heaven-sent, improbable, snap, sudden, surprise, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unhoped-for, unimagined, unlooked for). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неоголошений, без попереднього оголошення. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không báo trước (sky, unheralded). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unannounced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unenounced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unannounced" (pronounced u'nunou"nst) |
| 6 | -u n ou" n s t | announced, denounced, mispronounced, pronounced. |
| 5 | -n ou" n s t | renounced. |
| 4 | -ou" n s t | bounced, pounced, trounced. |
| 3 | -n s t | against, advanced, balanced, commenced, condensed, convinced, countenanced, counterbalanced, danced, dispensed, distanced, enhanced, ensconced, entranced, evidenced, evinced, experienced, fenced, financed, glanced, incensed, inconvenienced, inexperienced, influenced, licensed, minced, nuanced, referenced, refinanced, sensed, sentenced, silenced, unbalanced, unbeknownst, unconvinced, underfinanced, unfenced, unlicensed, winced. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-n-n-n-n-o-u-u" | |
-2 letters: announced. | |
-3 letters: announce, cannoned, nondance. | |
-4 letters: nuanced. | |
-5 letters: acnode, adnoun, ancone, canned, cannon, canoed, conned, deacon, duenna, nuance, undone. | |
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