undocumented

[ uhn-dok-yuh-men-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

lacking documentation or authentication.
lacking proper immigration or working papers: undocumented immigrants.
an undocumented worker;
undocumented immigrants.

First recorded in 1880–85; un- ¹ + documented ( def )

Five percent of the U.S. work force is undocumented, which is some 8.1 million people.

The undocumented got their documents and we got at least 11 million more illegal immigrants.

But how exactly does an undocumented immigrant get right with the law without changing his legal status?

Yet the undocumented population remains upwards eleven million.

He promises the undocumented a chance to ‘get right with the law’ but says there will be ‘no free pass’ to citizenship either.

The two specimens of this plate in the national collections are undocumented.

His idea of generosity was the undocumented and unqualified purchase of a person by payments made in the form of a gift.

Already that undocumented Magna Charta was manifestly not working upon the lines she had anticipated.

Surely it is safe here to domicile the restless Doctor, for these ten undocumented years between 1805 and 1815.

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