Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Unchained; unshackled; free from restraint; unrestrained.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of unfetter.
- adj. Not bound by chains or shackles.
- adj. by extension Not restricted.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not bound by shackles and chains
Etymologies
- From un- + fettered. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The report, prepared for the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, says 70 percent of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico and traced by authorities came from the U.S.The chair of the caucus, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, is calling on Congress to act on the findings and stop powerful Mexican drug traffickers from having what she calls "unfettered access" to military-style weapons from the United States.”
Voice of America: Report Finds US Guns Arming Mexican Cartels
“What that essentially means is while Iraq is ready and willing to let the inspectors in for what it calls unfettered access to most sites, that access, the unfettered access will stop at the palaces.”
“He tells us that persons had what he calls unfettered access to various private portions of the supervisor's office including a computer, and a box containing requests for absentee ballots and other "stuff," was his words.”
“I want to go in unfettered and as fresh as a virgin in a refrigerator, as Lord Finesse said.”
“If there's any group that should believe in unfettered access to the initiative process, and to vest power in the people rather than the legislators in the pay and in the pocket of special interests, it should be the Tea Party.”
The Huffington Post: Wayne Pacelle: Playing Politics with Puppy Mill Abuse
“In the right hands, there's a nobility in unfettered eccentricity.”
“You are obviously a true believer in unfettered capitalism and the “free” market.”
Think Progress » REPORT: A Closer Look At Consumer Protections In Dodd’s Financial Reform Bill
“That's fine, if you believe in unfettered competition without the indignant accusation of unfair trespass.”
“Harper is a HARD right wing ideologue who believes that an 'unfettered' - 'unregulated' free market is the solution to our ills.”
100 Reasons NOT To Vote For Stephen Harper's Conservative Party
“This brand of capitalism does not refer to an unfettered, lawless economy run amok and out of control, but rather is a free market-oriented system based on individual liberty and limited government as envisioned by our nation's founders.”
The Wall Street Journal: California vs. Texas: Debating Their Economic Policies
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unfettered’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Bright Folk
Some words I come across in my legal studies, though not really legal jargon. And the usage doesn't shout, "hey, I think I'm smart", just simply, "this is what applies in this context."
verbose, inter alia, ostentatious, usurp, presumptuous, anachronistic, unfettered, sine qua non, amenable, subversive, irreducible, penumbra and 28 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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to acquire
moustache, thoughtcrime, lift, overall, razor, strength, oily, gin, oily gin, brotherhood, dull, toward and 108 more...
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How very mikeropological..
Basically it's just mikeropology's words, but with his username turned into an adjectivally splendid list name.
mikeropology, squoze, anthropromorphism, mullu, spondylus, goobers, hipster, burnt umber, ochre, canvas, lapizure, burnt sienna and 172 more...
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Words I Want To Master
Words I know... but can never seem to remember while speaking or writing!
unfettered, nebulous, elude, vapid, precipitous, abscond, venerate, voracious, replete, laconic, denigrating, unctuous and 23 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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Necessary?
"Words are very..."
The above was the original description for this list. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey much about the list contents.
I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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Ny New Words
From Barron Wordlist the New Words
lap, lank, languor, languish, lancet, lance, lampoon, larceny, larder, largess, lascivious, latitude and 120 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for unfettered.
sarra “…unfettered access…” — BBC Radio 4 news bulletin, 10th May 2008. Surely most stations would use unrestricted or full! May 10, 2008