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UNSPENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unspent mean?
• UNSPENT (adjective)
The adjective UNSPENT has 1 sense:
1. (of financial resources) not spent
Familiarity information: UNSPENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of financial resources) not spent
Synonyms:
unexpended; unspent
Context example:
his unspent allowance
Similar:
unexhausted (not used up completely)
Context examples
He had no reason to wish his hair longer, to conceal any confusion of face; no reason to wish the money unspent, to improve his spirits.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And still there was a large portion of the four hundred and twenty dollars unspent.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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