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noncontrolling

noncontrolling adjective: not controlling (especially of a stake in a company).

Adjective

noncontrolling (not comparable)

  1. Not controlling (especially of a stake in a company).
    • Noncontrolling Methods to Get Children to Change Behavior1989, Thomas Gordon, Teaching children self-discipline--at home and at school
    • Honda, which has been selling 1,000 natural gas Civics a year — about 60 percent at retail and the rest to corporate or government fleets — owns a noncontrolling stake in FuelMaker.2007 February 18, Jim Motavalli, “A Self-Serve Station, in Your Garage”, in New York Times

Origin of noncontrolling

From non- + controlling.

Questions about noncontrolling

What does noncontrolling mean?
Noncontrolling means not controlling (especially of a stake in a company).
What part of speech is noncontrolling?
Noncontrolling is an adjective.

Words near noncontrolling in the dictionary

  1. noncontributors
  2. noncontributory
  3. noncontrivance
  4. noncontrollable
  5. noncontrolled
  6. noncontrolling
  7. noncontroversial
  8. noncontroversies
  9. noncontroversy
  10. nonconvective
  11. nonconvenable

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