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English
Verb
be not to know (third-person singular simple present is not to know, present participle being not to know, simple past was not to know, past participle been not to know)
- (UK, especially in the past) To not have the required information.
- You weren’t to know. ― You couldn’t have known.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, not, to, know.
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