nonworking

[ non-wur-king ]

/ nɒnˈwɜr kɪŋ /

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adjective

not employed for a salary, fees, or wages; not producing or generating income: Our employee medical plan also covers nonworking spouses.

not involved in or deriving from labor; not engaged in or directed toward work, especially as an employee: What are some of your nonworking activities?

not functioning or operating: a nonworking coffee grinder.

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Origin of nonworking

First recorded in 1850–55; non- + working

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How to use nonworking in a sentence

There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.
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Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
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Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
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I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
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He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
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The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
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Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.
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He also states that the Audiencia is virtually non-existent, and so there is no high court in which justice may be sought.
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Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
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The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.
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British Dictionary definitions for nonworking

nonworking

/ (nɒnˈwɜːkɪŋ) /

adjective

not engaged in payed employmentnonworking mothers

(of machinery, technology, etc) not operating properly or effectivelynonworking telephones

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