Definitions

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  • adjective Not personal.

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  • adjective lacking personality

Etymologies

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non- +‎ personal

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Examples

  • The HKMA warned banks in a statement late Thursday to "exercise caution to guard against nonpersonal business conversions disguised as transactions for personal use."

    Hong Kong Yuan Quota Depleted Chester Yung 2010

  • Under a nonpersonal services contract, the personnel rendering the services are not subject either by the contract's terms or by the manner of its administration to the relatively continuous supervision and control of government personnel.

    David Isenberg: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 2010

  • The GAO also found that DOD, State, and USAID use both nonpersonal and personal services contractors to perform contract or grant administration functions.

    David Isenberg: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 2010

  • Under a nonpersonal services contract to support the Joint Contracting Command -

    David Isenberg: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 2010

  • In your excerpt, you should have included the disclaimer that those you who "dislike my writing for legitimate, rational, nonpersonal reasons can tune out now if you like."

    Diablo Cody Says F**k Off! | /Film 2008

  • And State obligated just over $20 million as of March 2009 toward a nonpersonal services contract to provide program and acquisition support to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Office of Overseas Protective Operations, including for State's Worldwide Personal Protective Services II contracts.

    David Isenberg: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 2010

  • She says in her rant, Those of you who dislike my writing for legitimate, rational, nonpersonal reasons can tune out now if you like.

    Diablo Cody Says F**k Off! | /Film 2008

  • Many of her prayers use natural or nonpersonal images of God that seek to dislodge what she sees as the pernicious anthropocentrism or “species-ism” of the traditional prayer book.

    Feminist Theology. 2009

  • Plaskow discusses a wide range of new feminist imagery for God, including personal images, some of them female; natural images, and nonpersonal and conceptual images.

    Feminist Theology. 2009

  • Publicity - any unpaid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods, or services - is another important form of mass selling.

    Business Marketing Guide: the Four Major Components of a Marketing Mix 2008

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