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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of
industrial andindustrialized .
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- adjective Not
industrial . - adjective Of a
geographic area, notdesignated for use bymanufacturers and otherindustries ;residential orcommercial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises
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Examples
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Mike Kane for The Wall Street Journa Seattle has become a hotbed for cleaning up abandoned industrial sites and redeveloping them for nonindustrial uses such as office buildings and shopping centers.
Brownfields Bloom in Seattle Jim Carlton 2011
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The $6.6 billion deal was the largest nonindustrial acquisition in American history.
Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010
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But people from small, nonindustrial societies, such as the Hadza foragers of Tanzania, offer about $2.50 to the other player — who accepts it.
What’s Really Human? 2010
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But all that's left are a few old warehouses and factories long since converted to nonindustrial uses.
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He notes that Slow Food, the now-global movement to promote local foods produced by nonindustrial methods, started in Italy -- explicitly in response to the arrival of McDonald's.
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On June 26, the Italian government introduced a wide-ranging economic bill to parliament that included a proposal for a 6% tax on profits from the sale of gold for nonindustrial purposes.
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New York City, which tosses about eight million tons of nonindustrial trash each year, trucks much of it to big landfills in states such as Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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However, the person familiar with the matter said Enel is likely to seek a nonindustrial buyer that it can form a partnership with.
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Westvaco Corporation and Georgia-Pacific are the two largest industrial foresters in the ACE Basin; however, most of the total forested acreage (70%) is owned by nonindustrial private landowners.
Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007
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The forces of production are mainly agrarian and nonindustrial.
Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution Abhay N 2007
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