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Definition of Nonusable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonusable
Literary usage of Nonusable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Political Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"... which take material as nature provides it and appropriate it to some human
use or change it from a form which is nonusable to a form which is either ..."
2. Publication by Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee (1920)
"Likewise, a large number of the swings for older children were nonusable or unsafe.
One-sixth of all the teters were doing the children no good either ..."
3. Principles of Political Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"... which take material as nature provides it and appropriate it to some human
use or change it from a form which is nonusable to a form which is either ..."
4. Principles of National Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1921)
"... and natural source,—which take material as nature provides it and appropriate
it to some human use or change it from a form which is nonusable to a form ..."
5. Approval and Monitoring of Narcotic Treatment Programs: A Guide on the Roles by Lynne C. McArthur, Yvonne Goldsberry (1998)
"(2) The type and form of controlled substances handled (eg, bulk liquids or dosage
units, usable powders or nonusable powders); (3) The quantity of ..."
6. Elementary Biology: An Introduction to the Science of Life by Benjamin Charles Gruenberg (1919)
"... with a view to finding, if possible, a concentrated ration that contained a
maximum of nutrient and a minimum of indigestible and nonusable substance, ..."