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nonpoaching

nonpoaching adjective: forbidding the poaching of employees by another company.

Adjective

nonpoaching (not comparable)

  1. Forbidding the poaching of employees by another company.
    • […] deliberate collusive monopsonies, or "shut-in" devices, including nonpoaching agreements […]1973, William H. Hutt, The strike-threat system, page 112
    • Nonpoaching covenants, preventing the employee from seeking to hire other employees, need to be limited to specific categories of senior employees whose departure would damage the business […]2006, Philip M. Berkowitz, Thomas Müller-Bonanni, International labor and employment law, page 190

Origin of nonpoaching

From non- + poaching.

Questions about nonpoaching

What does nonpoaching mean?
Nonpoaching means forbidding the poaching of employees by another company.
What part of speech is nonpoaching?
Nonpoaching is an adjective.

Words near nonpoaching in the dictionary

  1. nonpluvial
  2. nonplywood
  3. nonpneumatic
  4. nonpneumococcal
  5. nonpneumonic
  6. nonpoaching
  7. nonpoet
  8. nonpoetic
  9. nonpoetical
  10. nonpoetry
  11. nonpoets

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