nonfulfillment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of nonfulfillment
First recorded in 1795–1805; non- + fulfillment
Example Sentences
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In most cases, the "harm" the commission referred to was related to possible charges of "nonfulfillment of duties."
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As it turned out, the factory's reward for a sizable savings in copper was to be fined $102,000 for nonfulfillment of its waste quota.
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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.
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Litvinoff retired into obscurity, was stripped even of his membership on the party's Central Committee "for nonfulfillment of his obligations."
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To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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