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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-standard
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
entry
▪ Students within the non-standard entry categories did as well, if not better, than other groups of entrants.
form
▪ But a different and less well-known set of problems emerges when attempts are made to examine alternation between standard and non-standard forms.
▪ It should also be recognised that non-standard forms are systematic and not haphazard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from the non-standard flight instruments the Apache has a convenient office and one rapidly feels at home.
▪ Example 91 uses non-standard units to avoid a relationship between different measures being known or guessed.
▪ For it is the non-elite institutions that are in the vanguard of recruiting non-standard students.
▪ It is housed in vertical files which are of non-standard size, and which are no longer manufactured.
▪ M., the staff will schedule interviews during non-standard hours as necessary.
▪ Results show that non-standard entrants achieved more good degrees than other students.
▪ The early machines, the 1512 and the 1640, used plastic cases and a non-standard size.
▪ This, and other similar non-standard methods make d'Compress harder to use than it need be.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
non-standard

nonstandard \nonstandard\, non-standard \non-standard\adj.

  1. varying from or not adhering to a standard; as, nonstandard windows; envelopes of nonstandard sizes; non-standard lengths of board cost more per foot. Opposite of standard. [Narrower terms: deficient, inferior, substandard]

    Syn: nonstandard.

  2. (Linguistics) Not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; as, a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups. Opposite of standard.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-standard

also nonstandard, 1926, from non- + standard. A linguist's value-neutral term for language formerly stigmatized as "bad" or "vulgar."

Wiktionary
non-standard

a. (alternative spelling of nonstandard English)

Usage examples of "non-standard".

Omega-inconsistent number theories were non-standard versions of arithmetic, based on axioms that "almost" contradicted each othertheir saving grace being that the contradictions could only show up in "infinitely long proofs" (which were formally disallowed, quite apart from being physically impossible).

The machine was eventually able to translate Azerbaijani-language newspapers printed in a non-standard version of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Not everyone can handle being imprinted into a non-standard human shape, but I hear it's a growing fashion among trendsetters.

And most of these sons of bitches used non-standard abbreviations like mad.