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- noun A person, device or organization that does not
produce a specified material.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We have come to the point where we must make the nonproducer a consumer or we will find ourselves drowning in a sea of consumer goods.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jim Horn 2009
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We have come to the point where we must make the nonproducer a consumer or we will find ourselves drowning in a sea of consumer goods.
Dr. King Knew the Education Problem is a Poverty Problem Jim Horn 2009
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Some of it was undoubtedly due to prejudice, to the hostility of the "producer" for the "nonproducer," and to the suspicion which the Western farmer felt for the Eastern magnate.
The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923
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I do not know her views now, her letter was written so long ago, but I have written to know her wishes and will do all in my power for her but that will be little for a nonproducer stands no chance now and one in the army can only say with the poet "'Tis strange that bread should be so dear and flesh and blood so cheap."
Augusta County: Jedediah Hotchkiss to Nelson H. Hotchkiss, August 15, 1863 Jedediah Hotchkiss 1863
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