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# unbelted

«unbelted» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not wearing a seat belt in a car or other vehicle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unbelted)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not wearing a seat belt in a car or other vehicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#m1)

2) Without a belt: an unbelted coat or dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used mostly in road safety lessons and news: unbelted passengers are much more likely to be badly hurt in a crash. Tells the reader someone is in danger or breaking the rules.

### examples

- Unbelted passengers can be thrown forward in a crash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#x1)
- The police stopped the driver because a child was unbelted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#x2)
- Never ride unbelted, even for a short trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#x3)
- The unbelted coat flapped open in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#x4)
- The poster showed an unbelted dummy flying through the windscreen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#x5)
- In the survey, 2 of the 40 drivers were unbelted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/#x6)

### note

un- + belted. Takes «an»: «an unbelted passenger». Safety fact: wearing a seat belt is the law in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland for almost everyone in a car.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unbelted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unbelted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.