nonmanufacturing
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- non-manufacturing
Etymology
[edit]From non- + manufacturing.
Adjective
[edit]nonmanufacturing (not comparable)
- (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector
- 1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- 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.