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sight unseen

(also sight-unseen)
 
 
adverb

Definition

without seeing or examining something: Would you buy a product sight unseen from someone you know only as an e-mail address? She leased the flat sight-unseen, for €1500 per month.
(Definition of sight unseen adverb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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