unfunded

[US]/ʌn'fʌndɪd/
[UK]/ʌn'fʌndɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking funding; without financial support; temporarily borrowed

Example Sentences

deal with unfunded liabilities

Real-world Examples

Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

Source: Past years' graduate entrance exam English reading true questions.

Britain's Conservative government plunged in the polls after markets punished its plan for unfunded tax cuts.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Markets reacted positively to the British government's decision to scrap most of its unfunded tax cuts.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

After a cost-cutting defence review, Mr Hammond inherited a staggering 74 billion ($122 billion) of unfunded commitments from the last Labour government.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Now, on Friday, we had this statement from the Prime Minister that she's now U-turned on half of the unfunded tax cuts.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

The central bank is buying the bonds through a temporary programme it created after markets took fright at the government's plans for unfunded tax cuts.

Source: The Economist - Weekly News Highlights

Britain made a spectacular entry into this financial purgatory in late September by unveiling plans for huge, unfunded tax cuts, sending the value of sterling crashing.

Source: Economist Finance and economics

And we, Rachel Reeves and the shadow economic team, would not do any unfunded tax cuts, but they would keep the reverse of national insurance rise.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

British government-bond yields eased back to levels they were before unfunded tax cuts, now mostly scrapped, caused panic selling and prompted an intervention from the Bank of England in September.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

When the British government announced unfunded tax cuts a day later, fire-sales by pension funds caused the yield on government bonds (or " gilts" ) to spiral out of control.

Source: Economist Finance and economics

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