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nonrenewable resource
n. Something (specifically a resource) that will not return, or renew, or will only return after a long period of time.
Usage examples of "nonrenewable resource".
I had to include in the terms of the charter a clause to offset the fact that her sails were a nonrenewable resource and I had my model in the type of contract which the petroleum corporations had negotiated in the days before the Chaos.
Today's ephemeral wealth of some of the region's nations, based on the single nonrenewable resource of oil, conceals the region's long-standing fundamental poverty and difficulty in feeding itself.
It had not occurred to her to think of it as a nonrenewable resource.