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un·at·tached

   [uhn-uh-tacht]
adjective
1.
not attached.
2.
not connected or associated with any particular body, group, organization, or the like; independent.
3.
not engaged or married.
Origin:
1490–1500; un-1 + attached
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unattached (ˌʌnəˈtætʃt)
 
—adj
1.  not connected with any specific thing, body, group, etc; independent
2.  not engaged or married
3.  (of property) not seized or held as security or in satisfaction of a judgment

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unattached
1498, "not arrested or seized," from un- (1) "not" + pp. of attach. Meaning "not associated with any body or institution" is recorded from 1796; sense of "single, not engaged or married" is first attested 1874.
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