nondegree en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + degree.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not of or pertaining to an academic degree.
But upon returning to civilian life in 2003, Mr. Morgan struggled, hopscotching from town to town and holding dead-end jobs, including one as a technician at a garage door company in Colorado Springs, and spending two semesters in 2007 as a nondegree student at the University of Colorado in Boulder before moving back with his parents.
2009 May 9, Serge F. Kovaleski, “From Prep School to Murder Suspect at Wesleyan”, in New York Times: