nonfulfillment
AmericanEtymology
Origin of nonfulfillment
First recorded in 1795–1805; non- + fulfillment
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Ruiz Cortines called in the contractor and fined him three times the amount of his claim for nonfulfillment of contract.
From Time Magazine Archive
In most cases, the "harm" the commission referred to was related to possible charges of "nonfulfillment of duties."
From Time Magazine Archive
This entailed a disruption of supplies and production, nonfulfillment of export obligations, and insufficient deliveries to the domestic market.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier
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