unaccounted for
下落不明的,下落不明,失踪的,失踪
Definitions
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- : not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
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Examples
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
The police suspect that the other unaccounted for 643,000 bitcoins, were removed from customer accounts via an unknown party.
There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
But no other instance of for-tened is known, nor yet of crece as short for increes (increase).
At length the long looked-for copy arrived, he saw it, composed himself and died, 1543.