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nonuse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /nɒnˈjuːs/ (UK)

Etymology

From non- + use.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The failure to make use of something.
   • Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons. 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 771:

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