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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Superficial treatment of such human clues results in nonfulfillment of the realistic human possibilities of artful-scientific professional knowing and nursing.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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