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nonpurchase

nonpurchase adjective: not involving a purchase.

Adjective

nonpurchase (not comparable)

  1. Not involving a purchase
    • The avoidance of a nonpossessory, nonpurchase money security interest, on the other hand, is limited to those liens on types of property specified.2003, Pamela Webster, Practical Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals, →ISBN, page 172

Noun

nonpurchase (countable and uncountable, plural nonpurchases)

  1. A failure to purchase something
    • Notice of nonpurchase could be given at any time between July 6, 1915, and May 3, 1916.1918, The Federal Reporter
    • But a more extensive approach would be to go beyond product to consider the nonpurchase decision.2002, Thomas Princen, Confronting Consumption, →ISBN, page 28

Forms of nonpurchase

pluralnonpurchases

Origin of nonpurchase

From non- + purchase.

Questions about nonpurchase

What does nonpurchase mean?
Nonpurchase means not involving a purchase.
What part of speech is nonpurchase?
Nonpurchase can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonpurchase in the dictionary

  1. nonpunishment
  2. nonpunitive
  3. nonpunitively
  4. nonpupillary
  5. nonpurchasable
  6. nonpurchase
  7. nonpurchased
  8. nonpurchaser
  9. nonpurchasers
  10. nonpurchases
  11. nonpurchasing

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