1Not funded.

1. 1.1 Not receiving public funds.
   无公共基金的
   a new education bill remained unfunded

   新教育议案仍无基金资助。

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   • There are currently more than $6 billion in unfunded requirements to provide necessary repairs to the eroded infrastructure of these systems on Army posts.
   • Given this bleak fiscal climate, these unfunded and underfunded mandates are irresponsible.
   • But the economic reality is these are unfunded mandates, and education regulators and school districts will have to find the money to pay for them.
   • It's an unfunded mandate: the federal government is forcing the states to spend their own money to comply with the act.
   • On August 22, Connecticut filed a lawsuit against the US claiming that Bush's education law is essentially an unfunded mandate from the federal government.
2. 1.2 (of a debt) repayable on demand rather than having been converted into a more or less permanent debt at fixed interest.
   （债务）短期的
   the unfunded debt

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   • In previous reports it was noted that no provision had been made for various unfunded liabilities.
   • What we are talking about is replacing an unfunded debt with funded debt.
   • Above all, reduce the unfunded potential future liabilities (they are not legal obligations like Treasury bonds) first.
   • Due diligence is the order of the day to assess if such liabilities are unfunded, or under-funded.
   • The present value of Social Security's unfunded liabilities is in the trillions of dollars.
3. 1.3 Denoting or relating to a pension scheme without a pension fund, the current beneficiaries being paid by a former employer from revenue or contributions by present employees.
   （与）无基金退休金计划（有关）的
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   • To be sure, few European companies are as burdened by unfunded pension liabilities as some U.S. companies, particularly in old-line industries.
   • General Motors now has 2.5 retirees on its pension rolls for every active worker and an unfunded pension debt of $19.2 billion.
   • All of that is trivial, compared to the yawning black hole of unfunded pension liabilities.
   • Although the airline industry's hefty $32 billion in unfunded pensions has captured headlines in recent months, the problem extends much further.
   • Their unfunded pension liabilities were probably more than $16 billion at year-end and retiree healthcare costs are more than three times that level.