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noncommittals

noncommittals is the plural of noncommittal.

Meaning of noncommittal

Noun

noncommittal (countable and uncountable, plural noncommittals)

  1. Failure to commit to a decision or course of action.
    • As a result of cowardly noncommittals during the immediate postelection period, there was so much strain on several black-white Democratic relationships that they approached open ruptures.1997, Dennis Sven Nordin, The New Deal's Black Congressman, page 42
  2. A voter etc. who has not yet committed to a decision.
    • Where they occur, in the Liberal increases in Quebec and Ontario for instance, they are offset by declines in the number of undecideds or noncommittals.1981, Howard Rae Penniman, Canada at the Polls, 1979 and 1980, page 372

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Questions about noncommittals

What is noncommittals the plural of?
Noncommittals is the plural of noncommittal.

Words near noncommittals in the dictionary

  1. noncommitments
  2. noncommittal
  3. noncommittalism
  4. noncommittally
  5. noncommittalness
  6. noncommittals
  7. noncommitted
  8. noncommittedly
  9. noncommitting
  10. noncommodifiability
  11. noncommodifiable

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