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nonpurchasing

nonpurchasing adjective: not purchasing; nonbuying.

Adjective

nonpurchasing (not comparable)

  1. Not purchasing; nonbuying.
    • And while a cable company may justify a lower bulk rate for shareholders based upon the co-op’s guarantee of payment (or the co-op’s pledge of some other benefit to the company), Mr. Sokolski said that he doubted that this would be enough to make shareholders and nonpurchasing tenants “dissimilar”...2007 January 28, Jay Romano, “Seeing Red Over the Cable Bill”, in New York Times

Origin of nonpurchasing

From non- + purchasing.

Questions about nonpurchasing

What does nonpurchasing mean?
Nonpurchasing means not purchasing; nonbuying.
What part of speech is nonpurchasing?
Nonpurchasing is an adjective.

Words near nonpurchasing in the dictionary

  1. nonpurchase
  2. nonpurchased
  3. nonpurchaser
  4. nonpurchasers
  5. nonpurchases
  6. nonpurchasing
  7. nonpure
  8. nonpurgative
  9. nonpurification
  10. nonpurified
  11. nonpurine

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