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non-business

non-business is the alternative form of nonbusiness.

Meaning of nonbusiness

Adjective

nonbusiness (not comparable)

  1. Not a business, or unrelated to business
    • But more than a third of those employers were nonbusiness entities, such as government agencies and nonprofits, the majority of which said they would observe the holiday.2007 January 14, Patrick Mcgeehan, “For Many, King’s Birthday Is Just Another Workday”, in New York Times

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Origin of non-business

From non- + business.

Questions about non-business

What is non-business the alternative form of?
Non-business is the alternative form of nonbusiness.

Words near non-business in the dictionary

  1. non-breaking space
  2. non-breaking spaces
  3. non-breeding
  4. non-brewed condiment
  5. non-brewed condiments
  6. non-business
  7. non-Canadian
  8. non-cancerous
  9. non-canon
  10. non-canonic
  11. non-canonical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-business (page history and authors); nonbusiness (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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