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Definition of "unfettered" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of unfetter. (verb)
  • Not bound by chains or shackles. (adjective)
  • Not restricted. (adjective)

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Use "unfettered" in a sentence
  • "The report, prepared for the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, says 70 percent of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico and traced by authorities came from the U.S.The chair of the caucus, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, is calling on Congress to act on the findings and stop powerful Mexican drug traffickers from having what she calls "unfettered access" to military-style weapons from the United States."
  • "What that essentially means is while Iraq is ready and willing to let the inspectors in for what it calls unfettered access to most sites, that access, the unfettered access will stop at the palaces."
  • "He tells us that persons had what he calls unfettered access to various private portions of the supervisor's office including a computer, and a box containing requests for absentee ballots and other "stuff," was his words."