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nonfuel

nonfuel adjective: not associated with fuel.

Adjective

nonfuel (not comparable)

  1. Not associated with fuel.
    • Aggressive efforts to cut costs have reduced nonfuel expenses by 16 percent since 2001, and for the first 10 months of this year, passenger traffic rose 7.3 percent from the period a year earlier.2007 December 13, Nicola Clark, “Airline Trade Group Predicts a Further Drop in Profit Next Year”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

Noun

nonfuel (countable and uncountable, plural nonfuels)

  1. Any substance that is not a fuel.

Forms of nonfuel

pluralnonfuels

Origin of nonfuel

From non- + fuel.

Questions about nonfuel

What does nonfuel mean?
Nonfuel means not associated with fuel.
What part of speech is nonfuel?
Nonfuel can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonfuel in the dictionary

  1. nonfruiting
  2. nonfruition
  3. nonfruits
  4. nonfrustration
  5. nonfucosylated
  6. nonfuel
  7. nonfueled
  8. nonfuels
  9. nonfugitive
  10. nonfugitives
  11. nonfulfilled

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