nonmanufacturing
English
editAlternative forms
edit- non-manufacturing
Etymology
editFrom non- + manufacturing.
Adjective
editnonmanufacturing (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.