unfilled
adjective
un·filled
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Definition of unfilled
: not filled
an unfilled bottle unfilled spaces a vacancy left unfilled an unfilled order
Examples of unfilled in a Sentence
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The goal, ultimately, is to fill the thousands of unfilled jobs in Birmingham and provide students an opportunity to get experience with a company, and hopefully, a good job in Birmingham after high school graduation or after college. — Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al, "What Birmingham students need to know about Woodfin’s college promise," 28 Aug. 2019 Then came the Great Recession, which took away the incentive for many foreign citizens to seek unfilled jobs in the United States. — Bob Sellers, Fortune, "The Surprising Way Republicans Used to Use Immigration to Boost the Economy," 18 July 2019 The Greater Cleveland Partnership has formed sector partnerships with nonprofits, employers and other stakeholders in manufacturing, IT and health care to work collaboratively on preparing workers for unfilled jobs. — Olivera Perkins, cleveland.com, "Skills gap can narrow through training, racial equity, keeping college grads: Team NEO report," 18 July 2019 At least 19 top jobs are unfilled or held by acting appointees, including Defense secretary. — Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: Today: The End of Asylum as We Know It?," 16 July 2019 No graves will go unfilled and no enmities will be buried simply because the Royal & Ancient has seen fit to bring the Open to this benighted little province. — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, "Open Championship at Portrush may be the only thing Northern Ireland can agree on," 15 July 2019 There are currently more than 500,000 unfilled computing jobs nationally, 72,000 of which are in California (Conference Board, 2019). — Andrew Lisa, The Mercury News, "Opinion: Too few Bay Area students have access to computer science courses," 11 Aug. 2019 There’s never been an indefinite halt to commercial flights ordered for an airplane as significant to airlines and Boeing as the 737 Max, which has a backlog of 4,415 unfilled orders. — Los Angeles Times, "Boeing burns $1 billion in cash waiting for its 737 Max to resume flying," 24 July 2019 About two-thirds of the 219 staff positions authorized for the Bureau of Cannabis Control remain unfilled, according to an audit by the state Finance Department. — Michael R. Blood, BostonGlobe.com, "California pot regulators struggling with job, audit says," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unfilled.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for unfilled
unfilled
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of unfilled
: available because no one has been chosen to take it
: requested but not yet prepared or given
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