Meaning & use
unspecified
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Not stated clearly or in detail.
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The email mentioned a meeting at an unspecified time next week.
Police said the man was arrested for reasons that remain unspecified.
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Common in formal, legal, and journalistic writing when precise details are deliberately or accidentally left out.
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