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nonmutual

nonmutual adjective: not mutual; having two or more different aspects, beliefs, personalities, etc. partially or completely dissimilar from or to each other.

Adjective

nonmutual (not comparable)

  1. Not mutual; having two or more different aspects, beliefs, personalities, etc. partially or completely dissimilar from or to each other.
    • This section shall not apply to any stock life insurance corporation which on or after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven, shall transact and shall represent itself as transacting its business exclusively upon a nonmutual basis and shall after said date issue only nonparticipating...1911, Darwin Pearl, James Monroe Kingsley, Studies in Practical Life Insurance, New-York Life Insurance Company, page 119
    • In the nonmutual associations it is possible to determine precisely how long a time will elapse before the entire debt is discharged, and exactly the cost to the borrower.1926, Elwood Lloyd, Successful Financing of the Home, Evening Herald, page 30

Origin of nonmutual

From non- + mutual.

Words formed from nonmutual

Questions about nonmutual

What does nonmutual mean?
Nonmutual means not mutual; having two or more different aspects, beliefs, personalities, etc. partially or completely dissimilar from or to each other.
What part of speech is nonmutual?
Nonmutual is an adjective.

Words near nonmutual in the dictionary

  1. nonmutators
  2. nonmute
  3. nonmutilated
  4. nonmutilating
  5. nonmutinous
  6. nonmutual
  7. nonmutualistic
  8. nonmutuality
  9. nonmutually
  10. nonmyasthenic
  11. nonmycelial

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