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  • noun One who is not a respondent; one who does not respond to a survey, etc.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ respondent

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Examples

  • We compared the characteristics of respondent and nonrespondent hospitals and found modest but significant differences.

    New England Journal of Medicine 2009

  • When I was at the magazine, we got low returns on a readership survey and they found, when they looked into it, that a large number of the nonrespondent subscribers couldn’t respond because they’d died.

    The incredible shrinking magazine « BuzzMachine 2005

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