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  • noun One who is not a national.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ national

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Examples

  • Resolution 1559 asks for disarmament of all militia, national and nonnational, and this was reaffirmed in Resolution 1701.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2006 2006

  • Perhaps "The Star" will become the nonnational nonanthem of this kind of ecological awareness.

    'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

  • And the majority of those nation-states have nonnational minorities in them.

    Fore, right! < 2010

  • And the majority of those nation-states have nonnational minorities in them.

    Fore, right! < 2010

  • And it’s slated to continue climbing—the U.S. Department of Commerce has identified education as one of the country’s most lucrative “exports” in the service sector.xii And why not advance policies to raise nonnational enrollment rates, if U.S. institutions can attract foreign currency as well as foreign minds?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And it’s slated to continue climbing—the U.S. Department of Commerce has identified education as one of the country’s most lucrative “exports” in the service sector.xii And why not advance policies to raise nonnational enrollment rates, if U.S. institutions can attract foreign currency as well as foreign minds?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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