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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonmanufacturing

Nonmanufacturing \Non*man`u*fac"tur*ing\, a. Not carrying on manufactures.

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nonmanufacturing

a. (context economics English) Outside of the manufacturing sector

Usage examples of "nonmanufacturing".

Clothing and machine parts, new radioactive slugs for the atomic engines, all the thousand and one parts and supplies that maintained a machine-based culture on a nonmanufacturing planet.