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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nonstarter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time, this was a nonstarter in Pyongyang.
▪ The issue of his failure to sell off stock portfolios is also a nonstarter.
▪ Trying to find her way back out was obviously a nonstarter but staying here she would probably be spotted fairly quickly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonstarter

nonstarter \nonstarter\ n.

  1. a person with a record of failing.

    Syn: loser, failure, unsuccessful person.

  2. A horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered.

  3. A proposal that will not receive serious consideration by those with authority to decide.

Wiktionary
nonstarter

n. 1 A project that has no chance of success 2 A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered

WordNet
nonstarter

  1. n. a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently [syn: failure, loser, unsuccessful person] [ant: achiever]

  2. a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered

Usage examples of "nonstarter".

Virtually every cross-reference I tried to track down was a nonstarter, each book I needed seemed to be checked out on interlibrary loan to somewhere in Witwatersrand.

Helical was big in the brains department, but businesswise I think it was a nonstarter.

Sadly, she seemed to have a thing for the Appliance Worm (as Pif privately thought of Srral), a nonstarter relationship if ever there was one.