unlisted

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The phone number for Young's home is unlisted, and his agent, Major Adams, did not answer his cell phone.

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  1. adjective Not appearing on a list, especially not listed in a telephone directory.
  2. adjective Relating to or being stock or securities not listed on a stock exchange.

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  • Then he began the two-page list of all the nice felons who'd called his unlisted telephone number simply to wish him dead. —  The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  • New Hampshire The phone number What will that do Your number is unlisted, right Right Hold on, let me show you something. —  Just One Look
  • The best suggestion they'd had was to change her number, but she couldn't see that that would do much good unless she kept it unlisted, and she could hardly do that and run a business. —  ClayYeager'sRedemption
  • Savage spoke this information into a gimmick that recorded it, and Monk told me the machine would put the words into the telephone when Ham Brooks called, if he called the unlisted phone number the contraption was hooked up to. —  170 - No Light To Die By
  • The BBS was a local, unlisted, lowlife bulletin board where snitches--dealers in info junk and hot telecredits--would log on looking for a meet. —  Omni: October 1994
 

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/ənˈlɪstɛd/
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