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  • adjective That is not, or does not relate to, hardware.

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non- +‎ hardware

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Examples

  • Fourth, Ludmilla Kropetskanoya, that dark pole of a creature, had dumped extra work on him, had told him to begin the end-of-the-year inventory and cost projections for paper, folders, and nonhardware items.

    A Fine Red Rain Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1987

  • It is a hardware store, but many items of the nonhardware variety, like dog leashes ($4.99) and bike tire tubes ($5), are there by customer demand.

    NYT > Travel 2010

  • On the nonhardware side the device would also be easy enough to use that an instruction manual would be unnecessary. iPhone nano and New Macbooks - Two Certainties for WWDC 2009?

    Apple Matters 2009

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