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  • noun One who is not a signatory.

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non- +‎ signatory

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Examples

  • Co. Last week in Tokyo, Japan had its first meeting regarding nuclear cooperation with India, after long hesitating to open such talks with New Delhi, a nonsignatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

    Six Japan Firms Team Up to Sell Nuclear-Power Technology 2010

  • The third handicap is India's position outside the global consensus on nonproliferation as a nonsignatory to the NPT.

    A Seat at the Table T. P. Sreenivasan 2008

  • Kyoto's supporters blame nonsignatory governments, especially the U.S. and, (until last week) Australia.

    Hot Air in Bali Gwyn Prins 2007

  • As a nonsignatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty NPT, India is outside the international nuclear nonproliferation scheme.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • As a nonsignatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty NPT, India is outside the international nuclear nonproliferation scheme.

    Signing statements give our representatives the old bait and switch Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • That the quoted phrase bears its literal meaning and is used here in contradistinction to a conflict between nations is demonstrated by Common Article 2, which limits its own application to any armed conflict between signatories and provides that signatories must abide by all terms of the Conventions even if another party to the conflict is a nonsignatory, so long as the nonsignatory “accepts and applies” those terms.

    SCOTUS to POTUS: RTFM « Whatever 2006

  • But not only did they need to reinterpret the Conventions, turing a provision intended to cover Civil Wars to include all non-State, nonsignatories, they also had to ignore the fact that Islamists do not meet the standards imposed by their own caveat, to wit: so long as the nonsignatory “accepts and applies” those terms. which clearly al Qaida et al do not.

    SCOTUS to POTUS: RTFM « Whatever 2006

  • Also suppose the producer hired certain key people who happen to be members of the union and, upon learning of the production, the union has told those people they may not work for a nonsignatory employer.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

  • Also suppose the producer hired certain key people who happen to be members of the union and, upon learning of the production, the union has told those people they may not work for a nonsignatory employer.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

  • Also suppose the producer hired certain key people who happen to be members of the union and, upon learning of the production, the union has told those people they may not work for a nonsignatory employer.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

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