unchartered

[ uhn-chahr-terd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

unchartered

/ ʌnˈtʃɑːtəd /

Care should be taken not to use unchartered where uncharted is meant: uncharted (not unchartered ) territory

First recorded in 1795–1805; un- ¹ + charter + -ed ²

Why, from that unchartered industry of smuggling of whose history we have already heard so much.

It was well to be cautious in regard to unchartered plantations in those days of greedy fishermen.

His brain is staggered by an unchartered immensity in which he has no portion, which he can only watch.

Then, at the instigation of the favored ones, the politicians passed a law to suppress all unchartered banks.

In no part of the world, and at no period of time, do we find the behavior of men left to unchartered freedom.

Browse