nonpurchasing en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + purchasing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not purchasing; nonbuying.
And while a cable company may justify a lower bulk rate for shareholders based upon the co-op’s guarantee of payment (or the co-op’s pledge of some other benefit to the company), Mr. Sokolski said that he doubted that this would be enough to make shareholders and nonpurchasing tenants “dissimilar” as cable subscribers.
2007 January 28, Jay Romano, “Seeing Red Over the Cable Bill”, in New York Times: