Passage: Rapid urban migration has placed enormous strain on housing and infrastructure in cities like Karachi and Lahore. Informal settlements have expanded quickly to accommodate newcomers, often lacking proper sanitation or legal land ownership. City planners argue that without affordable housing schemes, these settlements will continue growing unchecked, deepening existing inequalities across the wider urban population. Question: In the passage, the word ‘unchecked’ most nearly means:

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Passage: Rapid urban migration has placed enormous strain on housing and infrastructure in cities like Karachi and Lahore. Informal settlements have expanded quickly to accommodate newcomers, often lacking proper sanitation or legal land ownership. City planners argue that without affordable housing schemes, these settlements will continue growing unchecked, deepening existing inequalities across the wider urban population. Question: In the passage, the word &#8216;unchecked&#8217; most nearly means:

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Without control or restriction. 'Unchecked' means growing without restraint or oversight, the opposite of being inspected or controlled

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