Definitions

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  • adjective That does not grow.
  • adjective Not of or pertaining to growing.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ growing

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Examples

  • And, even if such nongrowing foods were contaminated, the radioactive material could be able to be washed away.

    Radiation Spurs Fears Around Japanese Food Shirley S. Wang 2011

  • And, even if such nongrowing foods were contaminated, the radioactive material could be able to be washed away.

    Radiation Spurs Fears Around Japanese Food Shirley S. Wang 2011

  • Nonunionized -- nongrowing (cattle feeding excellent example): Almost always facing Purchaser unification which eliminates creditable Wages or Profits, almost always dealing with big-ticket items like health care or cattle and surviving upon single Payment euphoria: no real upside, as the Purchaser unification turns into Seller unification, so Consumer prices remain high. lgl

    Productivity vs. Distribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • As discussed earlier, “growth” should refer to quantitative expansion in the scale of the physical dimensions of the economic system, whereas “development” should refer to the qualitative change of a physically nongrowing economic system in dynamic equilibrium with the environment.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

  • Any physical subsystem of a finite and nongrowing earth must itself also eventually become nongrowing.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

  • But, in its physical dimensions, the economy really is an open subsystem of a materially closed, nongrowing, and finite ecosystem with a limited throughput of solar energy.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

  • The economy is viewed as an open subsystem of the larger, but finite, closed, and nongrowing ecosystem.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

  • Daly further elaborated on this theme with his work on “steady state economics” [78] which worked out the implications of acknowledging that the Earth is materially finite and nongrowing, and that the economy is a subset of this finite global system.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2 2007

  • Among the most important varieties of the new breast cancer is the in situ tumor — the small, localized, almost nongrowing tumor that at the time of diagnosis has seemingly neither become invasive nor developed the capacity to metastasize.

    Good News and Bad News About Breast Cancer 1996

  • Among the most important varieties of the new breast cancer is the in situ tumor — the small, localized, almost nongrowing tumor that at the time of diagnosis has seemingly neither become invasive nor developed the capacity to metastasize.

    Good News and Bad News About Breast Cancer 1996

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