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nonsetter en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + setter.

Meanings

  1. One who is not a setter (in various senses).
    • Beginning a few years ago, I asked my nonsetters to bump-set every ball from the backcourt. 2009, Pete Waite, Aggressive Volleyball:
    • In this sample, twenty of the twenty-seven fire setters received a primary or secondary diagnosis of conduct disorder, compared with only eleven of twenty-seven nonsetters. 2000, Rita Wicks-Nelson, Allen C. Israel, Behavior Disorders of Childhood, page 188:

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