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单词 unfilled
释义
unfilledun‧filled /ˌʌnˈfɪld◂/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • About 13,000 of the unfilled positions are for software engineers.
  • It's hard to understand the unemployment figures when so many jobs go unfilled.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • At one stage half the permanent health service posts were unfilled and agency staff worked in the flat on a daily basis.
  • Demand has been so feverish that the company has a backlog of unfilled orders for commercial satellites.
  • He said there would be no enforced redundancies, but some vacant posts would remain unfilled.
  • In some areas, especially big cities, there may be anything up to 50 percent of posts left unfilled.
  • That compares with 13,221 unemployed claimants and 241 unfilled vacancies in January 1987.
  • Then, discerning an unfilled need, he started a cigar-box company in the heart of the Southern Ontario tobacco fields.
  • This required all staff to work overtime or for the Command Center to bring in workers to cover unfilled shifts.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen a job is available
not being done by anyone at the moment and therefore available: · Our company only has one or two vacant positions at the moment.· When the post became vacant it was offered to Wendy Brooks.fall vacant (=become vacant) British: · He applied for the job of Eliot's personal secretary, which had just fallen vacant.
an available job: · There are over 3 million people unemployed and only 400,000 vacancies.· I'm sorry, the firm has no vacancies at the moment.fill a vacancy: · Barnhart will fill a vacancy on the Planning Commission.
a job that is open , especially a job that needs a lot of skill, is still available because it has not yet been given to anyone else: · Is that job you told me about last week still open?open to: · The position is open to graduates in any subject.come open: · When the job finally came open, I was the first to apply.
an available job: · I was wondering if there were any job openings at your company.fill an opening: · We expect to fill most of the openings through internal promotion.
a job or position that is unfilled is available because an employer has not yet decided who should do it, or cannot find someone suitable for it: · About 13,000 of the unfilled positions are for software engineers.· It's hard to understand the unemployment figures when so many jobs go unfilled.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a job for which no one has been hired)· The teaching unions estimate there are some 10,000 unfilled vacancies.
1an unfilled job, position etc is available but no one has been found for it yet:  unfilled vacancies2an unfilled order a request by a customer for a product that has not been sent
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