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nonuses

nonuses is the plural of nonuse.

Meaning of nonuse

Noun

nonuse (countable and uncountable, plural nonuses)

  1. The failure to make use of something.
    • Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 771

Questions about nonuses

What is nonuses the plural of?
Nonuses is the plural of nonuse.

Words near nonuses in the dictionary

  1. nonused
  2. nonuseful
  3. nonusefulness
  4. nonuser
  5. nonusers
  6. nonuses
  7. nonusing
  8. nonusurping
  9. nonuterine
  10. nonuterotropic
  11. nonutile

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