单词 | unchecked |
释义 | unchecked (ʌntʃekt ) adjective [ADJECTIVE after verb, ADJECTIVE noun, verb-link ADJECTIVE] If something harmful or undesirable is left unchecked, nobody controls it or prevents it from growing or developing. If left unchecked, weeds will flourish. ...a world in which brutality and lawlessness are allowed to go unchecked. This provision gives the president total and unchecked power. Synonyms: uncontrolled, out of control, rampant, out of hand Collocations: unchecked power His lecture was a warning of the temptations of unchecked power. Times, Sunday Times The dictatorship of the proletariat invariably hands unchecked power to the few. Times, Sunday Times That approach prevents board squabbles, but puts huge amounts of unchecked power in the hands of one person. Times,Sunday Times Those travellers frustrated by the apparently unchecked power of the booking sites could adopt their own guerrilla tactics. Times, Sunday Times Under our system, vast unchecked power resides with the executive. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 未受遏制的 Japanese: 抑制されない |
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