unincorporated

adjective

un·​in·​cor·​po·​rat·​ed ˌən-in-ˈkȯr-pə-ˌrā-təd 

: lacking corporate status : not formed into a legal corporation : not incorporated

an unincorporated village/community

an unincorporated business/association

Examples of unincorporated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Task force leaders previously acknowledged that reality: Two census tracts used in El Cajon’s count are fully beyond city limits and another five include at least some unincorporated communities. —Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025

Connor McCarty and other storm chasers captured footage of a tornado spinning next to a rainbow in an open field near Dickens, an unincorporated community in southwestern Lincoln County, Nebraska on June 16. —Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 18 June 2025

Los Angeles County, meanwhile, did step up in unincorporated Altadena, providing $3 million for soil testing for homeowners downwind of the Eaton fire. —Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 14 June 2025

Thus, some cities on this list may be considered unincorporated communities, but are treated as individual cities by the Census Bureau’s designation of them as a place. —Andrew Depietro, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1732, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unincorporated

• ameliorated
• decontaminated
• deoxygenated
• deteriorated
• differentiated
• disarticulated
• excommunicated
• incapacitated
• individuated
• misappropriated
• monounsaturated
• multinucleated