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nongreedy

nongreedy adjective: not greedy.

Adjective

nongreedy (not comparable)

  1. Not greedy.
    • In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl

Forms of nongreedy

alternative formnon-greedy

Origin of nongreedy

From non- + greedy.

Questions about nongreedy

What does nongreedy mean?
Nongreedy means not greedy.
What part of speech is nongreedy?
Nongreedy is an adjective.

Words near nongreedy in the dictionary

  1. nongrazed
  2. nongrazing
  3. nongreased
  4. nongreasy
  5. nongreat
  6. nongreedy
  7. nongreen
  8. nongreenhouse
  9. nongreeting
  10. nongreetings
  11. nongregarious

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