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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key):/ʌnˈjuːzd/,/ʌnˈjuːst/
- (General American)IPA(key):/ʌnˈjuzd/,/ʌnˈjust/
Audio(UK): (file) Audio(General Australian): (file) - Rhymes:-uːzd,-uːst
- Hyphenation:un‧used
Adjective
[edit]unused(comparativemoreunused,superlativemostunused)
- (not comparable)Notused.
- I have twounusedvouchers for a free meal.
- 1972October, “Losses from Operating a Farm”, inFarmer's Tax Guide: Income and Self Employment Tax(Internal Revenue Service; publication 225), Washington, D.C.:Internal Revenue Service,Department of the Treasury,published1973,→OCLC,page35:
- If you have anunusedcredit for a year for which you also have additional tax liability because of an early disposal of an asset, you may reduce the added tax liability by the current year'sunusedcredit that may be carried backsolelybecause of recomputation of the investment credit for the prior year.
- 1975June, Edward W. Lawless, Thomas L. Ferguson, Alfred F. Meiners, “Introduction”, inGuidelines for the Disposal of Small Quantities of Unused Pesticides(Environmental Protection Technology Series;EPA-670/2-75-057), Cincinnati, Oh.: National Environmental Research Center,United States Environmental Protection Agency,→OCLC,page 9:
- A particular problem is the disposal of small quantities of unwanted, surplus, orunusedpesticides. Considerable attention has been given recently to the detoxification, prior to disposal, of sizable amounts of pesticides such as the herbicides returned from Vietnam. Some attention has also been given to the smaller amounts ofunusedpesticides at the consumer level, and in a few communities, specific pesticides such as DDT have been collected by authorities and safely disposed of by proven procedures.
- 2001,George Alagiah,A Passage to Africa,London:Little, Brown Book Group,→ISBN:
- TheLancaster House agreement's clauses on land distribution, which were later written into the independence constitution, are worth reading if only to understand why[Robert] Mugabereserves some of his most vitriolic verbal assaults for the British who, as the one-time colonial power, presided over the conference. The clause made it extremely difficult for Zimbabwe's democratically elected government to procure land, even land that wasunused.The legal hoops through which a government would have to jump to do so were designed to ensure that it would rarely, if ever, happen.
- Notaccustomed(to),unfamiliarwith.
- I amunusedto the dark nights of the countryside.
- 1603,William Shakespeare,“The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies,London: Printed byIsaac Iaggard,andEd[ward] Blount,published1623,→OCLC,act V, scene ii,page338:
- I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am.[…]/ Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeitun-vsedto the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
- 1886May 1 – July 31,Robert Louis Stevenson,Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751:[…],London; Paris:Cassell & Company,published1886,→OCLC:
- When I returned again to life, the same uproar, the same confused and violent movements, shook and deafened me; and presently, to my other pains and distresses, there was added the sickness of anunusedlandsman on the sea.
- 1985,John Irving,The Cider House Rules: A Novel,New York, N.Y.:William Morrow and Company,ISBN978-0-688-03036-0;republished asThe Cider House Rules,London:Black Swan,1986,ISBN978-0-552-99204-6,page 237:
- Oh shut up, Wally, Candy was thinking, although she understood why he couldn't stop babbling. He wasunusedto an environment he couldn't instantly brighten; he wasunusedto a place so despairing that it insisted on silence. He wasunusedto absorbing a shock, to simply taking it in. Wally's talk-a-mile style was a good-hearted effort; he believed in improving the world – he had to fix everything, to make everything better.
- 2014,Vladimir Nabokov,edited by Olga Voronina andBrian Boyd,Letters to Véra,London:Penguin Classics,→ISBN:
- He [Nabokov] begins this first letter [toVéra Nabokov] with memorable abruptness and no salutation ('I won't hide it: I'm sounusedto being—well, understood, perhaps—sounusedto it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick...[…]').
- Synonyms:unacquainted(with),unfamiliarwith
- Antonyms:acquainted(with),familiar(with)
Usage notes
[edit]The second pronunciation (/-uːst/) is used for the “not accustomed” sense (especially in informal speech), and is adevoicingof the terminal/zd/to/st/under the influence of the/t/of the followingto.In very informal situations the final stop is oftenelidedcompletely, leading to the pronunciation of “unused to” as a single word/ˈʌn.juːs.tə/.In formal speech the second (/-uːst/) pronunciation is frequently proscribed in favour of the fully voiced (/-uːzd/) pronunciation, which is acceptable for either sense and is normally used for the “not used” sense in all registers.
Translations
[edit]not used
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not accustomed (to)
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