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  • noun One who is not a consumer.

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non- +‎ consumer

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Examples

  • Expansion-hungry Chinese companies are likely to encounter some of the same resistance that has snarled foreign deals in nonconsumer industries.

    Overseas M Alison Tudor 2010

  • And he is also pursuing nonconsumer uses of the technology, such as communications systems for police, fire and ambulance personnel, the people close to the situation say.

    Satellite Phone Plan Aims High 2009

  • The two companies are in essentially same business, though Claria has been caught in the spyware debate. 180 has a nonconsumer unproduct called zango.

    ADware’s nasty web 2004

  • When Norio Ohga became president in 1982, he set a goal of 50% of sales from nonconsumer products.

    Managing New Product and Process Development Kim B. Clark 1993

  • September 1st, 2007 at 1:42 am hey fantastic idea, i’m gonna do it! another amazing thing plants can do for us. getting closer to becoming a nonconsumer yay liebana Says:

    GROW YOUR OWN TREEHOUSE | Inhabitat 2006

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