Definition of Nonunion

1. Adjective. Not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union. "A nonunion contractor"


Definition of Nonunion

1. a. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter.

Definition of Nonunion

1. Adjective. Not part of a labor union; not unionized. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonunion

1. failure of a broken bone to heal [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nonunion

1. Failure of normal healing of a fractured bone. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonunion

nonunderstandable
nonundoable
nonundulating
nonuniaxial
nonunidirectional
nonunifiable
nonunified
nonuniform
nonuniformed
nonuniformitarian
nonuniformities
nonuniformity
nonuniformly
nonunilateral
nonunimodular
nonunion (current term)
nonunionised
nonunionism
nonunionist
nonunionists
nonunionized
nonunions
nonunique
nonuniquely
nonuniqueness
nonuniquenesses
nonunital
nonunitary
nonunity
nonunivalent

Literary usage of Nonunion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1921)
"Complications other than delayed union and nonunion, such as deformity, ... Fifty-nine patients with delayed union or nonunion were observed in the Mayo ..."

2. The Treatment of fractures: With Notes Upon a Few Common Dislocations by Charles Locke Scudder (1905)
"nonunion of Fractures.—If after the usual time has elapsed for a fracture to have ... If after a longer time no union occurs, nonunion is said to exist. ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"The}' were told that they could come back, but not as mem- liers of the United Mine Workers of America: that thenceforward the mine would be run nonunion, ..."

4. War Emergency Construction (housing War Workers): (housing War Workers). by United States Housing Corporation (1920)
"The question of tlie employment of nonunion workers on housing projects was raised a number of timos. It first came before the Industrial Relations Division ..."

5. Human Resource Policies and Practices in American Firms (1993)
"For example, 14.7 percent of all nonunion professionals but only 1.8 percent ... About two and one-half times as many nonunion as unionized clerical workers ..."

6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"They notified him that he would not be considered in sympathy with organized labor If he kept In his employment nonunion men, although he was then under ..."

7. Principles of War Surgery Based on the Conclusions Adopted at the Various by United States Surgeon-General's Office (1918)
"TREATMENT OF PSEUDARTHROSES (nonunion). 1. The essential inevitable cause of pseudarthroses following war fractures is primary destruction of a part of the ..."

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