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non-use

non-use is the alternative form of nonuse.

Meaning of nonuse

Noun

nonuse (countable and uncountable, plural nonuses)

  1. The failure to make use of something.
    • Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 771

Forms of non-use

pluralnon-uses

Questions about non-use

What is non-use the alternative form of?
Non-use is the alternative form of nonuse.

Words near non-use in the dictionary

  1. non-union Mexican equivalents
  2. non-unique
  3. non-unit
  4. non-units
  5. non-urgent
  6. non-use
  7. non-useful
  8. non-usefulness
  9. non-user
  10. non-users
  11. non-uses

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