nonheavy
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nonheavy (not comparable)
- Not heavy.
- nonheavy metals
- 2007, Takatoshi Ito, Anne O. Krueger, Trade in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region:
- Thus, the positive output effect of Taiwan's proposed goods liberalization on the nonheavy manufacturing sector stems from the shift in relative industrial protection toward the nonheavy manufacturing sector.
- 2013, C. Nathan DeWall, The Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion, page 58:
- Specifically, store personnel displayed microinequities—they smiled less, they spoke fewer words, and they were more rude and less friendly with heavy (versus nonheavy) individuals.
- 2014, Arthur Alterman, Substance Abuse and Psychopathology, page 24:
- Among the nonheavy drinkers also, those who were depressed had a more difficult time stopping drinking once they had begun.