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non-able bodied

non-able bodied is the alternative form of non-able-bodied.

Meaning of non-able-bodied

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

Forms of non-able bodied

comparativemore non-able bodied
superlativemost non-able bodied

Questions about non-able bodied

What is non-able bodied the alternative form of?
Non-able bodied is the alternative form of non-able-bodied.

Words near non-able bodied in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-able bodied (page history and authors); non-able-bodied (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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