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  • adjective Not formal.

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non- +‎ formal

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Examples

  • More than 7000 tambonlevel nonformal educational centres will be set up nationwide in a bid to increase Thai literacy rate, Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said yesterday.

    Literacy News – 165th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • More than 7000 tambonlevel nonformal educational centres will be set up nationwide in a bid to increase Thai literacy rate, Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said yesterday.

    Literacy News – 162th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • But like nonformal tracks, they typically take multiple meetings and a lot of persuading.

    Go Your Own Way 2008

  • R. Govinda, head of the department of schools and nonformal education at New Delhi's National University of Educational Planning and Administration, says embracing cheap private schools is defeatist.

    Doing It Themselves 2007

  • Halal bi halal-nya kan udah pas Senen, yang ini ngumpul-ngumpul aja, nonformal, soalnya pas Senen blom semuanya dateng.

    mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2006

  • The property of being a concrete object is also a nonformal property (many things lack it); as we shall see below, it isn't easy to tell whether it is a positive or a negative property.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • It appears, initially at least, that some nonformal positive properties are entailed by negative properties (given that there is such a distinction for properties).

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • There is no reason at all to think it isn't possible to think about God; there is no reason at all to think that we cannot predicate such positive, nonformal properties of him as wisdom, knowledge, love, and all the rest.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • If this is the way the wind blows, then the Real enjoys at least one positive nonformal property of which we have a conception: the property being experienced by us.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • No; for if there is one such being, then maybe there are several more, none with any positive, nonformal properties we can grasp but differing from each other in positive, nonformal properties we can't grasp.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

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