nonmanufacturing en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + manufacturing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Outside of the manufacturing sector
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.
1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader: