untapped

un·tapped /ˌʌnˈtæpt◂/ adjectiveadj

USE/CONSUMEan untapped supply, market, or talent is available but has not yet been used 〔资源、市场或天赋〕未开发的，未利用的

Older people are an untapped resource in the employment market.

年龄较大的人是就业市场中有待利用的资源。

We believe there is untapped potential.

我们相信还有潜力没有挖掘出来。

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untapped• The firm recognized that the potential of their databases went largely untapped.• However, the profit potential of an untapped consumer market is tantalizing scores of corporations.• Senior citizens groups may also provide an untapped fund of skilled helpers.• There is a vast untapped genetic and metabolic biodiversity in nature that can also be harnessed.• A whole untapped market awaited him.• It has reached beyond the dealers to the previously untapped market of individual buyers.• Companies are spending millions of dollars to drill for untapped onshore reserves.• Untapped reserves of oil and minerals are thought to lie beneath the desert.• The plants of the Australian outback represent a vast untapped resource.• The provision of transport may uncover an untapped source of recruitment not previously available.

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TOEFL BNC: 19433 COCA: 18033

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