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  • adjective Not critical

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  • adjective not in a state of crisis or emergency
  • adjective marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures
  • adjective not critical; not at a point of abrupt change

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Examples

  • Some executives estimate that Citigroup could dispose of as much as $12 billion in so-called noncritical assets.

    Happy New Year? Don't Bank On It 2007

  • And the Department of Homeland Security's own inspector general has examined the list and is questioning what it's calling noncritical assets, not just the kangaroos, a petting zoo, an apple and pork festival in Illinois, a Tennessee Mule Day Parade.

    CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2006 2006

  • The result, across the nation: Teachers are being laid off and new hiring frozen, after-school programs cut, so called "noncritical" subjects like history eliminated, schools closed, and tuitions hiked at state colleges and universities.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • Alcoa said it would stop all "noncritical" capital projects and suspend its share-buyback program.

    U.S. shares careen in volatile day 2008

  • The result, across the nation: Teachers are being laid off and new hiring frozen, after-school programs cut, so called "noncritical" subjects like history eliminated, schools closed, and tuitions hiked at state colleges and universities.

    No Bailout For Public Education Jim Horn 2008

  • Some executives estimate that Citigroup could dispose of as much as $12 billion in "noncritical" assets.

    Bhutto Assassination 2007

  • The hospital filed a "noncritical" missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department, which was changed to critical after Wilkinson told the police that her mother was suicidal.

    Latest Articles Courthouse News 2010

  • It’s total [ly] ego centered … And you also get a kind of noncritical attitude — that’s to say, you have to respect my taste, and that this is my opinion … And these are my emotions, so please respect them …

    The Aspen Ideas Festival 2006

  • It’s total [ly] ego centered … And you also get a kind of noncritical attitude — that’s to say, you have to respect my taste, and that this is my opinion … And these are my emotions, so please respect them …

    The Aspen Ideas Festival 2006

  • "noncritical" violations that were later corrected, said Jose Rodriguez, Columbus Public

    The Columbus Dispatch Feed 2010

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