nonarrival
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aɪvəl
Noun edit
nonarrival (countable and uncountable, plural nonarrivals)
- Failure to arrive.
- 1958, Richard F. Newcomb, Abandon ship!: Death of the U.S.S. Indianapolis:
- The nonarrival of a ship being a common thing, it is not a matter of making a decision of what to do in each case, but of following an over-all rule...