uncompensated

Example Sentences

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With “Beef,” Lee links the potential liabilities women face by locking into long-term relationships to the realities of the capitalist trap, which draws women into not only unpaid housework but uncompensated emotional labor, too.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Brad Wiewel, a Texas trust attorney, called it “very highly unusual” and not advisable to have such a trustee be uncompensated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

“It is in reality an uncompensated confiscation of property,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 10, 2026

Hospitals may be forced to reduce services and staffing due to higher costs for uncompensated care, according to KFF, a nonprofit health research organization.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

Workers were paid by the ton, which both encouraged them to hack out coal with reckless haste and meant that any labor they expended making their environment safer or more comfortable went uncompensated.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson