nonengineering love

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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to engineering.

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non- +‎ engineering

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Examples

  • Google was following a traditional narrative of Silicon Valley companies arriving in Washington—after an initial denial of the necessity of wasteful nonengineering efforts spent on politicking, Google realized that not playing the game would leave the company vulnerable to lobbying by its foes.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Google was following a traditional narrative of Silicon Valley companies arriving in Washington—after an initial denial of the necessity of wasteful nonengineering efforts spent on politicking, Google realized that not playing the game would leave the company vulnerable to lobbying by its foes.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Still, Grove listened when colleagues approached him with a nonengineering-based argument: Abandoning the x86 architecture, they said, would leave Intel's huge base of existing customers stranded.

    Andy Grove's Re-entrance Andy Grove's Reentrance 2006

  • Furthermore, if such nonengineering concerns as health and Central American politics are entered into the discussion, as Morgan had always insisted they must be, then the issue becomes as debatable in hindsight as it was then.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Furthermore, if such nonengineering concerns as health and Central American politics are entered into the discussion, as Morgan had always insisted they must be, then the issue becomes as debatable in hindsight as it was then.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • The electronics technician monitors frequencies for possible violations, conducts frequency measurements, tests equipment, analyzes applications for various licenses, and does other nonengineering technical work.

    Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998

  • We try not to squash out their nonengineering interests.''

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • More women than men left engineering for family-related reasons, but that gender gap was no different than what Hunt found in nonengineering professions.

    CNN.com 2010

  • More women than men left engineering for family-related reasons, but that gender gap was no different than what Hunt found in nonengineering professions.

    CNN.com 2010

  • We have nevertheless maintained the essential feature of this book -- to package the more important aspects of environmental engineering science and technology in an organized manner and present this mainly technical material to a nonengineering audience.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

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