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non-able-bodied

non-able-bodied adjective: not able-bodied; disabled.

Adjective

non-able-bodied (comparative more non-able-bodied, superlative most non-able-bodied)

  1. Not able-bodied; disabled.
    • It was directed in August 1877 that, on works under the Public Works Department, able-bodied labourers who did not perform the tasks should be paid only for the portion done, though the effect might be to reduce their wages below the rate paid on works under Civil Agency; but that non-able-bodied...1880, Henry Wilberforce Clarke, Report on the Railway Famine-traffic in the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay and the Province of Maisur, page 9
    • I will next deal with the whole question of the non-able-bodied, dealing with the Bill as it treats the non-able-bodied as a whole.1910, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 801

Forms of non-able-bodied

comparativemore non-able-bodied
superlativemost non-able-bodied
alternative formnonablebodied
alternative formnon-ablebodied
alternative formnonable-bodied
alternative formnon-able bodied

Origin of non-able-bodied

From non- + able-bodied.

Questions about non-able-bodied

What does non-able-bodied mean?
Non-able-bodied means not able-bodied; disabled.
What part of speech is non-able-bodied?
Non-able-bodied is an adjective.

Words near non-able-bodied in the dictionary

  1. non-A-E hepatitis
  2. non-Abelian
  3. non-abject
  4. non-ablative
  5. non-able bodied
  6. non-able-bodied
  7. non-ablebodied
  8. non-abrasive
  9. non-absorbent
  10. non-abstractive
  11. non-abstruse

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