nondefense
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- non-defense
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nondefense (not comparable)
- Unrelated to military defense
- 1988 August 19, Ben Joravsky, “Peace Conversion: a tiny city agency seeks to turn swords into plowshares”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- A more immediate concern, therefore, is to figure how more of the $250 million earmarked for Chicago might be spent on nondefense items.