Definition of "unchecked" []

• Not held in check; unrestrained: an unchecked flow of water; an unchecked temper. (adjective)
• Not checked for accuracy, efficiency, or flaws: an unchecked list. (adjective)
• Informal Of or relating to a square in a crossword that is part of only one word instead of two. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Sonia Gandhi, president of India's ruling Congress party, yesterday launched a vituperative attack on what she called the unchecked greed of bankers and businessmen, recalling the glory days of her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi who began nationalising commercial banks in the late"
• "Sonia Gandhi, the highly influential president of India's ruling Congress Party, yesterday launched a vituperative attack on what she called the unchecked greed of bankers and businessmen, recalling the glory days of her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi who began nationalising commercial banks in the late 1960s."
• "While he agrees with Lawrence that neighborhood infrastructure must be handled on a need basis and removed from slush funds, he proposes an INCREASE in unchecked, unsupervised slush fund expenditures."