nonmanufacturing

English

Alternative forms

• non-manufacturing

Etymology

non- +‎ manufacturing

Adjective

nonmanufacturing (not comparable)

1. (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.