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  • adjective Not compulsory.

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non- +‎ compulsory

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Examples

  • If the former, the question arises again why that audience can't support the programming through advertising, subscriber fees or other noncompulsory sources.

    The Trouble With Auntie Brian M. Carney 2010

  • If the former, the question arises again why that audience can't support the programming through advertising, subscriber fees or other noncompulsory sources.

    The Trouble With Auntie Brian M. Carney 2010

  • Prime Minister David Cameron is set to introduce a noncompulsory, nonmilitary "national service" for British teenagers.

    The Big Society Goes Camping 2010

  • If the former, the question arises again why that audience can't support the programming through advertising, subscriber fees or other noncompulsory sources.

    The Trouble With Auntie Brian M. Carney 2010

  • If the former, the question arises again why that audience can't support the programming through advertising, subscriber fees or other noncompulsory sources.

    The Trouble With Auntie Brian M. Carney 2010

  • There also should be noncompulsory guidelines on best practice.

    Why Banks Need Pay Fix 2008

  • Or perhaps you mean noncompulsory moments of silence for prayer, or allowing a student to read a bible in the lunchroom, or wear a cross around their neck.

    jeremiah was a bullyfrog 2008

  • "Or perhaps you mean noncompulsory moments of silence for prayer, or allowing a student to read a bible in the lunchroom, or wear a cross around their neck."

    jeremiah was a bullyfrog 2008

  • But it was not previously known, even to some senior counterterrorism officials, that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have been using their own “noncompulsory” versions of the letters.

    Hullabaloo 2007

  • It would seem that if a state can establish an official religion it can also aid and endorse one religion or religion in general, for example, by instituting a noncompulsory pledge of allegiance in its government schools that includes the words “under God”–another practice to which I strongly object as a libertarian.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalist Sacrifices: 2004

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