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  • adjective Not of pertaining to industry or some specific industry.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ industry

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Examples

  • Some of the nonindustry parties already getting tongues wagging: Nicholas Berggruen , of Berggruen Holdings, is holding his annual pre-party at the Chateau Marmont, the same night Larry Gagosian is hosting an event with the actor James Franco .

    A Campaign for the Vain 2011

  • Kathleen Quinn, a spokeswoman for the agency, said panel choices were made based on the federal statute, which said the nonindustry members of the panel could not have received any salary or payments from any tobacco manufacturer, distributor or retailer in the previous 18 months.

    FDA Tobacco Panel Includes Members With Quit-Smoking Ties David Kesmodel 2010

  • Kathleen Quinn, a spokeswoman for the agency, said panel choices were made based on the federal statute, which said the nonindustry members of the panel could not have received any salary or payments from any tobacco manufacturer, distributor or retailer in the previous 18 months.

    FDA Tobacco Panel Includes Members With Quit-Smoking Ties David Kesmodel 2010

  • But all those claims are compatible with the widely recognized fact that antidepressants have helped a great many people and that, as John Michael Bostwick of the Mayo Clinic has written, several recent, large nonindustry studies indicated that rates of suicide and suicidal behavior were actually reduced in children who used antidepressants, despite piteous anecdotal tales.

    The Truth About Prozac: An Exchange Curzon, Gerald 2008

  • Taking a nonindustry job would kill her chances at that.

    BLIND AMBITIONS LOLITA FILES 2000

  • Taking a nonindustry job would kill her chances at that.

    BLIND AMBITIONS LOLITA FILES 2000

  • Taking a nonindustry job would kill her chances at that.

    BLIND AMBITIONS LOLITA FILES 2000

  • James Dieke, serious journalist and “best nonindustry friend” to Tyler Kydd, is staring at the screen, on which there is a close-up of a severed foot.

    Monkeys in Manhattan: Diekes Make Love, War 1996

  • James Dieke, serious journalist and “best nonindustry friend” to Tyler Kydd, is staring at the screen, on which there is a close-up of a severed foot.

    Monkeys in Manhattan: Diekes Make Love, War 1996

  • According to several people on nonindustry sponsored gardening blogs I read, their new

    Sun Journal top news 2010

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