nonmanufacturing

English

Alternative forms

  • non-manufacturing

Etymology

From non- +‎ manufacturing.

Adjective

nonmanufacturing (not comparable)

  1. (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector
    • 1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]:
      Between 1962 and 1984, Chicago lost 244,000 manufacturing jobs, while the number of nonmanufacturing jobs (service, research, retail, financial, and real estate) climbed by 372,500.
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