noncooperating en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + cooperating.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not cooperating.
If it arrested noncooperating witnesses in the United States attorneys scandal — and there are more than just Mr. Bolten and Ms. Miers — then they would have the right to challenge their confinement in federal court.
2007 December 4, Adam Cohen, “Congress Has a Way of Making Witnesses Speak: Its Own Jail”, in New York Times: