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nonable-bodied

nonable-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 nonable-bodied

comparativemore nonable-bodied
superlativemost nonable-bodied

Questions about nonable-bodied

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

Words near nonable-bodied in the dictionary

  1. nonability
  2. nonabine
  3. nonabject
  4. nonablated
  5. nonablative
  6. nonable-bodied
  7. nonablebodied
  8. nonabnormal
  9. nonabolition
  10. nonaboriginal
  11. nonaboriginals

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