untapped source

collocation in English

meaningsofuntappedandsource

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untapped
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈtæpt/us
/ʌnˈtæpt/
If a supply of something valuable is untapped, it is not yet used or taken ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofuntappedandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Beetles, with their unparalleled species and habitat diversity, might be a majoruntappedsourceof antibiotics and biopharmaceuticals.
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Government interest in community development finance is based upon the assumption that within disadvantaged communities there is anuntappedsourceof entrepreneurship.
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This variation in quality constitutes a rich and largelyuntappedsourceof evidence pertaining to the construction history and original meaning of this pivotal work in the history of architecture.
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The krill in that area is the largestuntappedsourceof protein in the world.
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I feel the polytechnics believe—it is difficult to disabuse them—that the universities have anuntappedsourceof revenue.
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We cannot afford to neglect thisuntappedsourceof homes which are so badly needed.
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We regard it as an almostuntappedsourceof revenue, that should be further taxed.
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This is a vastuntappedsourceof public service which we should strain every nerve to bring back.
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On the one hand, she has disclosed a rich,untappedsourceof the power needed to sustain modern civilisation.
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In addition, there is available in this country anuntappedsourceof well-proved design experience.
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To utilise thisuntappedsource, no great expense and effort would be required.
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This is greatly to be lamented, because it is the largestuntappedsourceof protein in the world.
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That is a hugeuntappedsource; it could make a real difference to constituencies such as mine by increasing the supply of properties.
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The federation representative admitted that the vast number of bottles coming from hotels and restaurants remained anuntappedsourceof cullet.
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The seconduntappedsourceof food to meet the problem of hunger is in the deserts.
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We have called upon a hithertountappedsourceof defence, and this experience shows what reserves of patriotism we possess.
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Possibly they may know of some hithertountappedsourcefrom which they will be able to get men of the officer class.
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Here is anuntappedsource.
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A fact of which we should never lose sight, paradoxical though it may seem, is that by far the largestuntappedsourceof skilled manpower today is women.
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If we think that we can use them and that we ought to try to use them they are anuntappedsourcefor civil defence purposes.
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