Uncollected Meaning
/ənkəˈlɛktɪd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot collected or gathered.
adjAbsent in mind; not having one's thoughts collected.
Sentence Examples
The company has a large amount of uncollected debt from various clients.
The uncollected mail began to pile up in the small mailbox.
The company is trying to recover unpaid, uncollected debts.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The dirty laundry lay at the bottom of the stairs, ____ for days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The waste remained ____ for several days because of the strike by the local sanitation workers earlier this week today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English collected English uncollected From un- + collected.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks."
— 2009 July 12, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2022:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The dirty laundry lay at the bottom of the stairs, ____ for days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The waste remained ____ for several days because of the strike by the local sanitation workers earlier this week today.