0 Something that is unwritten does not exist in a written or printed form:
an unwritten constitution
There's an unwritten rule that you don't wear jeans to work.
1 not written
In both written and unwritten traditions, a complex of thoughts and approaches to music are handed down from teacher to student.
To be more precise, in early pre-consumer societies where transactions were largely unwritten, litigation occurred as a way of establishing the terms of transactions.
Such know-how is generally elaborated case-by-case in unwritten rules.
Both examples suggest a culturalpolitical logic - unwritten, fluid, but influential - which leaves some indigenous organisations privileged and others all but excluded.
The working process is ideal for an early stage in the research, as a method for discovering new directions in an unwritten, unexplored territory.
In essence, these describe differences in the unwritten or implicit employment relationship that senior management will wish employees to embrace.
Small firms may manage quite well with an unwritten structure, where the informal links between staff are adequate to allow smooth functioning of the business.
Wittingly or not, these studies have established an unwritten but alluring template for the study of policy reform.
