1 used to describe an amount of profit or loss from an investment, where the investment has not been sold so that, in the case of a profit, there is no real gain, because it has not been turned into cash, and in the case of a loss, it is not a real loss:
unrealized depreciation/loss
unrealized appreciation/gain/profit When an investment increases or decreases in value but we do not sell it, we record an unrealized gain or loss.
A better position, surely, would be to consider the objective probabilities of the unrealized alternatives.
While the potential for these environmental benefits from transgenic crops is real, it is as yet unrealized.
And it is daunting to discover from the book the range and extent of unrealized projects considered, sometimes deeply, by this extraordinarily copious creator.
The logic of economics, as applied to politics, implies that potential economic gains remain unrealized in the second group of countries.
Levelling off is, however, also unacceptable as in this case genetic gains in yield potential remain clearly unrealized.
After the momentary premonition of a faster tempo, still unrealized, refracted oboe and clarinet lines once more hint at some unrevealed loveliness.
Collectively these first three papers highlight the unrealized potential of the primary health care agenda on a global scale.
But this may be in sharp contrast to the assessment of a third-party observer, aware of all the other opportunities unrealized in her life.
