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nondurable

nondurable adjective: providing useful services for only one period, especially a year.

Adjective

nondurable (not comparable)

  1. Providing useful services for only one period, especially a year.
    • Demand for nondurable goods, products like food, paper and petroleum, fell by 4.8 percent in December after an 8.7 percent fall in November.2009 February 6, The Associated Press, “Factory Orders Fall Again With No Clear End in Sight”, in New York Times

Noun

nondurable (plural nondurables)

  1. A nondurable good.

Antonyms of nondurable

Forms of nondurable

pluralnondurables

Origin of nondurable

From non- + durable.

Questions about nondurable

What does nondurable mean?
Nondurable means providing useful services for only one period, especially a year.
What part of speech is nondurable?
Nondurable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nondurable in the dictionary

  1. nonduplicates
  2. nonduplicating
  3. nonduplication
  4. nonduplicative
  5. nondurability
  6. nondurable
  7. nondurables
  8. nondurational
  9. nondurophagous
  10. nondust
  11. nondusty

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