unfunded
adjective
un·fund·ed
ˌən-ˈfən-dəd 
1
: not funded : floating
an unfunded debt
2
: not provided with funds
unfunded schools
Examples of unfunded in a Sentence
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Meanwhile, safety improvements to the Route 26 corridor, between the Liberty Reservoir and Route 32, remain unfunded in the draft plan, Heyn said.
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Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
The city’s Employees’ Retirement Fund has about $1 billion in unfunded liabilities.
—Jason Beeferman, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
Related:Dallas council mulls $1 billion bond package, including $150 million to foster housing
Dallas has $3 billion in unfunded liabilities in the police and fire pension system and another $1 billion in the employees’ retirement fund.
—Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
Others have far smaller surpluses, which officials have weighed using to help pay down unfunded pension liabilities or debt, or investing in other things, like education, according to NASBO.
—Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
Some cities, like Dallas and Portland, have also had to face up to their huge unfunded pension liabilities.
—Mark Davidson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
Chow, and her students, took the project on as an unfunded labor of love.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
One big obstacle to this aspiration is that cleaning up space debris is an almost entirely unfunded effort.
—Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
Another figure reveals the change in the unfunded liabilities of our social insurance programs.
—Scott Burns, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
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Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
The city’s Employees’ Retirement Fund has about $1 billion in unfunded liabilities.
—Jason Beeferman, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
Related:Dallas council mulls $1 billion bond package, including $150 million to foster housing
Dallas has $3 billion in unfunded liabilities in the police and fire pension system and another $1 billion in the employees’ retirement fund.
—Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
Others have far smaller surpluses, which officials have weighed using to help pay down unfunded pension liabilities or debt, or investing in other things, like education, according to NASBO.
—Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
Some cities, like Dallas and Portland, have also had to face up to their huge unfunded pension liabilities.
—Mark Davidson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
Chow, and her students, took the project on as an unfunded labor of love.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
One big obstacle to this aspiration is that cleaning up space debris is an almost entirely unfunded effort.
—Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
Another figure reveals the change in the unfunded liabilities of our social insurance programs.
—Scott Burns, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Unfunded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unfunded. Accessed 26 Sep. 2023.
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