nonfulfillment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of nonfulfillment
First recorded in 1795–1805; non- + fulfillment
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In most cases, the "harm" the commission referred to was related to possible charges of "nonfulfillment of duties."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ruiz Cortines called in the contractor and fined him three times the amount of his claim for nonfulfillment of contract.
From Time Magazine Archive
When priests are arrested or exiled from Moscow it is for violations of laws such as nonpayment of rent and taxes and nonfulfillment of other regulations binding all citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Litvinoff retired into obscurity, was stripped even of his membership on the party's Central Committee "for nonfulfillment of his obligations."
From Time Magazine Archive
Disappointment -- N. disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
