unknowing

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God forbid there's a good year, because it ramps up receivables, inventory & pay down in debt (to the unknowing are all good things, right?), which drains cash flow.

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  1. adjective Not knowing; unaware.

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  • God forbid there's a good year, because it ramps up receivables, inventory & pay down in debt (to the unknowing are all good things, right?), which drains cash flow. —  Sweetness & Light
  • To the unknowing, the mox button being so wedged can cause a lot of problems with the rig coming up in transmit ... —  eHam.net News
  • Barlaam was sighted enough to visit the haunted and terrifying boundaries of the guru darkness of unknowing, and he ran into the old-shoe familiarities of scholastic cubbyholes. —  Second Terrace
  • Peggy Noonan's call for unknowing, the suggestion that "sometimes in life you want to just keep walking" is anathema to the fundamental premise of a democracy. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring, —  Qwaider Planet
 

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  1. from Middle English unknowyng, unknawynge; from un- + knowing.
 

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/ənˈnoʊɪŋ/
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