Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no official license.
- adjective Done without permission; not authorized.
- adjective Lacking moral restraint; unrestrained.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not licensed; not having a license: as, an unlicensed innkeeper.
- Done or undertaken without, or in defiance of, due license or permission: as, an unlicensed traffic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
licensed ; not officiallyauthorized . - adjective Free from
requiring a license.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking official approval
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Examples
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However, wireless ISPs, especially ones like his, which operate in unlicensed spectrum, will be harmed by aspects of the legislation.
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Lop off the head (the topsites), and the body (the worldwide trade in unlicensed media) falls lifeless to the ground.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Inside the World of Software Piracy: 2005
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So, while they're stomping on you for a minor offence, the long-term unlicensed get a virtual free kick.
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This is commonly called unlicensed mobile access (UMA), a name that describes a particular technology rather than the concept, but UMA is the only such approach currently deployed.
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This is commonly called unlicensed mobile access (UMA), a name that describes a particular technology rather than the concept, but UMA is the only such approach currently deployed.
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This is commonly called unlicensed mobile access (UMA), a name that describes a particular technology rather than the concept, but UMA is the only such approach currently deployed.
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This is commonly called unlicensed mobile access (UMA), a name that describes a particular technology rather than the concept, but UMA is the only such approach currently deployed.
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This is commonly called unlicensed mobile access (UMA), a name that describes a particular technology rather than the concept, but UMA is the only such approach currently deployed.
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Defiant Middlesbrough to name unlicensed Southgate as manager
Gareth Southgate's new FA post offers no way back to club managership 2011
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Those sellers of guns should have been referred to as unlicensed sellers of weapons, rather than as unlicensed "dealers."
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