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untaken advantage of en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + taken advantage of.

Meanings

1. (rare) Not taken advantage of.
   • The Decision By City Council last week to allow the York Recreation Commission to use the old York Junior College gymnasium after renovations are carried out and until the construction of a planned Public Safety Center there is in our opinion a wise decision. […] It Is In Our Opinion a shame that the building has been allowed to sit unused, untaken advantage of for so long a time, something like five years or so. York City is short on recreation facilities, there seems to be no doubt about that. 1968 March 12, C[harles] M[oul] Gitt, “Food for Thought”, in J[osiah] W[illiam] Gitt, editor, The Gazette and Daily, volume 161, number 26733, York, Pa.: […] York Gazette Co., →OCLC, page 16, column 4:
   • Indian costume had been abandoned. Lakshmi and Geraldine were both elegantly turned out. The result of hours spent across the street at Bergdorf Goodman’s. Eventually, out of need, I made a visit to Saks where I hurriedly assembled a number of unattractive odds and ends. Why unattractive? I don’t know. I suppose that I didn’t want to take advantage of our situation on the ground that, un'''taken advantage of, whatever that situation was it might be tempted to go away. 1978, Gore Vidal, chapter 9, in Kalki: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, section 1, page 201:
   • As Vincent Fort stated, “they did not save Grady [Memorial Hospital], they took it over” to reap surplus profits. “What these business leaders adhere to is: never let a crisis go untaken advantage of,” Fort contended. “They made that point (that) Grady’s going to close and all that. But the fact is, they took advantage of that hysteria and unleashed the dogs. They were enlisted in the fight against the community in a shameful way.” 2020, Augustus C[lark] Wood III, “Reaping a Bitter Harvest: […]”, in Apartheid and Resistance in the Political Economy of Gentrification: […], Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2024, page 369:
   • Thirty-six years ago Dr. J[ames] F[owler] Tocher, with whom I had the honour of being closely associated, proposed an approach to the Scottish Universities with a view to securing facilities for the University training of pharmaceutical students and the institution of a science degree open only to pharmacists. The scheme was unanimously approved by the Council of the Society and, through the assistance of Professor Bower, a member of the Senatus of Glasgow University, the scheme was adopted by that University. But it remained untaken advantage of by reason of the Society having no recognised compulsory scheme of pharmaceutical education. 1938 September 17, J[ohn] Rutherford Hill, “British Pharmaceutical Conference, 1938: Chairman’s Address […]”, in The Chemist and Druggist, volume CXXIX, number 3058, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 285, column 1:
   • Like everything else in the way of cultivation, it is carried out to perfection, the utmost care and cleanliness being observed—four miles of rows. To begin with “Le Meulage,” the arranging of the rows is all done by hand, well-rotted stable manure procured from barracks being used. This is placed thus [illustration] according to shape of passage in cave, no corner being left untaken advantage of, the rows are about two feet high, the space for walking being about two feet between each pair of rows. 1914, Mrs. C[harles] W[illiam] Earle [i.e., Theresa Earle]; Ethel Case, “June”, in Pot-pourri Mixed by Two, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 159:

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