Definitions

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  • adjective Not contraband.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ contraband

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Examples

  • He has to change clothes, retrieve noncontraband possessions, and sign off on release forms.

    Maximum Security Rose Connors 2004

  • He has to change clothes, retrieve noncontraband possessions, and sign off on release forms.

    Maximum Security Rose Connors 2004

  • He has to change clothes, retrieve noncontraband possessions, and sign off on release forms.

    Maximum Security Rose Connors 2004

  • Their cargoes of wheat were officially noncontraband, but wheat was of as vital importance to Bonaparte as ever was hemp, or pitch, or any other item on the contraband list — the more wheat he could import, the more men he could draft into his armies.

    Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938

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