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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to a factory.

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non- +‎ factory

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Examples

  • At 91 percent, overall employee satisfaction is among the highest of any division at Sony Electronics, factory or nonfactory.

    Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010

  • At 91 percent, overall employee satisfaction is among the highest of any division at Sony Electronics, factory or nonfactory.

    The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010

  • At 91 percent, overall employee satisfaction is among the highest of any division at Sony Electronics, factory or nonfactory.

    Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010

  • There isn't enough nonfactory chicken produced in America to feed the population of Staten Island and not enough nonfactory pork to serve New York City, let alone the country.

    Kerry Trueman: Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms 2009

  • The country has thrived in this period, with gains in productivity allowing for growth in nonfactory jobs from accountants to massage therapists.

    Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In 2008

  • Because of the relatively high value per specimen, this trade can be carried on by fewer individuals in a nonfactory setting, and it is well suited to village industry, provided there is supervision and a quality-control checkpoint.

    2 Butterfly Status and Conservation 1983

  • -- 18TH CENTURY: THE BRACE AND BIT in its nonfactory form conforms to a general design pattern in which none of the components are ever precisely alike.

    Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh

  • There isn't enough nonfactory chicken produced in America to feed the population of Staten Island and not enough nonfactory pork to serve New York City, let alone the country.

    A Striped Armchair Eva 2010

  • "We serve basically clean, nonfactory farming meats" that have never been given antibiotics and have never been administered hormones.

    BCBRdaily Laurie Budgar 2010

  • This self-improvement is also facilitated by night school sessions, which may cost as much as a month's salary and which the young women attend after a full shift, somehow managing the feat of showing up in a fresh change of nonfactory clothes.

    My Open Wallet 2009

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