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[ adjective ] (prefix) reverse of or absence of
Examples "`nonhuman' is a negative term containing `non' as a prefix" Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Do you rigidly distinguish between job - and non job connected health_problems and avoid treating the latter ? Choose carefully between contributory or non contributory pension plans . A non contributory plan usually won n't pay_off for the worker until he retires . (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)If anti-Semitism was on_trial in Jerusalem , why was it not identified , and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press , in its connection with the activities of Eichmann 's Department_of_Jewish_Affairs , as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany , as_well_as in Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary ? (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)In upper teen Jewish life , the non college group tends to have a sense of marginality . Related terms |
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