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uncommissioned en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + commissioned.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not commissioned.
    • Why should not a widow, having two uncommissioned sons in the army, have her remaining son exempt, as well as if her husband were still living? 1864, Various, The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I:
    • One single individual, amidst a vast empire nearly overthrown, surveys its danger with steady eye: he measures, he appreciates it, and ventures, perhaps uncommissioned, to devote all the public and private interests a sacrifice to it. 1825, Count Philip de Segur, History of the Expedition to Russia: