unclaimed

un·claimed

(ŭn-klāmd′)

adj.

Not claimed: unclaimed luggage.

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unclaimed

(ʌnˈkleɪmd)

adj

not having been claimed: £7 million in unclaimed prizes.

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Adj.

unclaimed - not claimed or called for by an owner or assignee; "unclaimed luggage"

unwanted - not wanted; not needed; "tried to give away unwanted kittens"

Translations

non reclamato

unclaimed

[ˈʌnˈkleɪmd] ADJ → sin reclamar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unclaimed

[ʌnˈkleɪmd] adj [property, luggage, prize] → non réclamé(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unclaimed

adj prize → nicht abgeholt; property also → herrenlos; right, inheritance → nicht geltend gemacht; social security etc → nicht beansprucht; to go unclaimed (prize) → nicht abgeholt werden; (right, inheritance) → nicht geltend gemacht werden; (social security etc) → nicht beansprucht werden

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unclaimed

[ʌnˈkleɪmd] adj (prize, social security benefit) → non ritirato/a; (property) → non reclamato/a

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Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown of, unclaimed, and accumulating.

Upon which Flora returned to take care of her, and hovered about her on a sofa, intermingling kind offices and incoherent scraps of conversation in a manner so confounding, that whether she pressed the Marshalsea to take a spoonful of unclaimed dividends, for it would do her good; or whether she congratulated Little Dorrit's father on coming into possession of a hundred thousand smelling- bottles; or whether she explained that she put seventy-five thousand drops of spirits of lavender on fifty thousand pounds of lump sugar, and that she entreated Little Dorrit to take that gentle restorative; or whether she bathed the foreheads of Doyce and Clennam in vinegar, and gave the late Mr F.

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He had seen her unclaimed at the beginning of a great function and he had had to come to her rescue to save her, as he doubtless thought, from the inglorious fate of a wall-flower.

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That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific detective,--especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering the antecedents of criminals.

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2) And here there grows, unpruned, untamed, Terror to foemen's spear, A tree in Asian soil unnamed, By Pelops' Dorian isle unclaimed, Self-nurtured year by year;

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I would rather restore to poor Rick his proper nature than be endowed with all the money that dead suitors, broken, heart and soul, upon the wheel of Chancery, have left unclaimed with the Accountant-General--and that's money enough, my dear, to be cast into a pyramid, in memory of Chancery's transcendent wickedness."

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