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nonmanufacturing

nonmanufacturing adjective: outside of the manufacturing sector.

Adjective

nonmanufacturing (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the manufacturing sector
    • Between 1962 and 1984, Chicago lost 244,000 manufacturing jobs, while the number of nonmanufacturing jobs (service, research, retail, financial, and real estate) climbed by 372,500.1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of nonmanufacturing

From non- + manufacturing.

Questions about nonmanufacturing

What does nonmanufacturing mean?
Nonmanufacturing means outside of the manufacturing sector.
What part of speech is nonmanufacturing?
Nonmanufacturing is an adjective.

Words near nonmanufacturing in the dictionary

  1. nonmanually
  2. nonmanufacture
  3. nonmanufactured
  4. nonmanufacturer
  5. nonmanufacturers
  6. nonmanufacturing
  7. nonmarathon
  8. nonmarble
  9. nonmarginal
  10. nonmarginalized
  11. nonmarijuana

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