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unlocatable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + locatable.

Meanings

1. Not locatable; impossible to locate.
   • As work on the assignment progressed, students found that many of the terms they first selected proved unlocatable in English-language contexts, and were only found in Cantonese contexts[.] 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 148:
   • In this case it appears to have been randomly applied, like bandages on an unlocatable wound. 2007 May 17, Holland Cotter, “Leaving Her Mark, Sometimes With Tape”, in New York Times:

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