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unpoliced

unpoliced adjective: not policed; not subject to effective regulation.

Adjective

unpoliced (not comparable)

  1. Not policed; not subject to effective regulation
    • � The $50 billion also pales next to other sums that remain unaccounted for in the Bush era, from the $345 billion in lost tax revenue due to unpoliced offshore corporate tax havens to the far-from-transparent disposition of some $350 billion in Wall Street bailout money.2009 January 11, Frank Rich, “Eight Years of Madoffs”, in New York Times

Origin of unpoliced

From un- + policed.

Questions about unpoliced

What does unpoliced mean?
Unpoliced means not policed; not subject to effective regulation.
What part of speech is unpoliced?
Unpoliced is an adjective.

Words near unpoliced in the dictionary

  1. unpolarizing
  2. unpoled
  3. unpolemical
  4. unpolemically
  5. unpoliceable
  6. unpoliced
  7. unpolicemanly
  8. unpolicied
  9. unpolish
  10. unpolishable
  11. unpolished

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