unrealized

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not yet achieved, fulfilled, or made real

   Her unrealized plan for a public garden survived only in sketches.

2. 2
   adj

   finance: increased or decreased in value but not yet converted into an actual gain or loss by sale

   The shares produced a large unrealized gain by the end of the year.

Formed from un- + realized. The financial sense uses realize in its older meaning 'convert property into money,' so a gain remains unrealized until the asset is sold.

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