unfilled

adjective

un·​filled ˌən-ˈfild How to pronounce unfilled (audio)
: not filled
an unfilled bottle
unfilled spaces
a vacancy left unfilled
an unfilled order

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His first chart is a 10-year weekly bar chart that showed an unfilled gap at 4,842. Chuck Jones, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 But unfilled positions in the school district dropped after an influx of Venezuelans and Haitians in 2019, the administrator told me. Mercedes Vigon, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025 About 13,000 of those positions are unfilled, according to the chief executive’s office. Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025 Persistently weak, unfilled orders have only expanded seven times in the past 24 months. Jason Schenker, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfilled

Word History

First Known Use

1584, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unfilled was in 1584

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“Unfilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unfilled. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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