indefinite

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in‧def‧i‧nite AC /ɪnˈdefənət, ɪnˈdefənɪt/ adjective
[Word Family: verb: define; noun: definition; adverb: definitely ≠ indefinitely; adjective: definite ≠ indefinite]
[Word Family: adverb: definitely ≠ indefinitely; adjective: definite ≠ indefinite]
1. an indefinite action or period of time has no definite end arranged for it:
　 ▪ The next day the union voted to begin an indefinite strike.
　 ▪ The picture has been loaned for an indefinite period to the National Gallery.

2. not clear or exact SYN vague:
　 ▪ Teachers find the report’s terminology so indefinite that it is confusing.

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an indefinite period (=with no fixed end)
▪ The painting had been loaned to the gallery for an indefinite period.
an indefinite strike (=with no end planned)
▪ Workers at the processing plant have begun an indefinite strike.
indefinite article
indefinite leave (=leave without a time limit)
▪ She has gone on indefinite leave, suffering from exhaustion.
indefinite pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
article
▪ Note the indefinite article - A judicial view, not the judicial view.
future
▪ Anyway, we're here for the indefinite future and I've been given the job of furnishing the hotel.
▪ The Creation is followed by an indefinite future within historical time.
▪ With recycling and an adequate source of power, this immense population is sustainable into the indefinite future.
leave
▪ Surrogate twins of a homosexual couple have been granted indefinite leave to stay in Britain.
▪ As the Gay situation unraveled, reserve guard Charlie Taylor was granted an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons.
▪ The prospect of indefinite leave was anathema.
▪ Before leaving, the teacher had requested an indefinite leave of absence, but the school board had denied his request.
number
▪ The iterated game is simply the ordinary game repeated an indefinite number of times with the same players.
▪ A literary text is compatible with an indefinite number of contexts yielding indefinitely many readings and re-readings.
▪ However, it will not do so an indefinite number of times.
▪ An object can be described from an indefinite number of different perspectives.
▪ Furthermore, expectation of an indefinite number of future meetings means that deception or conflict are much less attractive options.
▪ Hence it is transmitted vertically to the next generation and then, vertically again, to an indefinite number of future generations.
period
▪ Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move, this one is for an indefinite period.
▪ To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period.
▪ And it will provide free and unlimited local calls for an indefinite period.
strike
▪ The unions are balloting 24,000 members in four companies next week on an indefinite strike.
▪ On the following day doctors and medical personnel announced an indefinite strike, which was promptly declared illegal.
▪ The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.
▪ After a ballot earlier this year, the 3,000-strong workforce had planned to take indefinite strike action from August 21.
▪ Strikes An national and indefinite strike of bank workers began on Sept. 12 for pay increases of up to 297 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our plans for traveling are deliberately indefinite.
▪ The refugees will be housed and fed here for an indefinite period.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before leaving, the teacher had requested an indefinite leave of absence, but the school board had denied his request.
▪ However, tenured teachers do not have a right either to a particular position in a school district or to indefinite employment.
▪ The deferral is indefinite if reinvestment is in non-depreciating assets such as freehold land and buildings.
▪ The unions are balloting 24,000 members in four companies next week on an indefinite strike.
▪ To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period.
▪ Two somewhat indefinite entries under Letcombe Basset specify only Hampshire.
▪ You have one that would make it clearly indefinite and one that would make it clearly definite.