nonessential
IPA: nɑnɪsˈɛntʃʌɫ
noun
- Something that is not essential.
adjective
- Not required; not essential.
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Examples of "nonessential" in Sentences
- The government urges "nonessential" employees to stay home.
- I had an idea: If they're "nonessential," why should they come to work at all?
- If the city can save on what it calls nonessential spending, then it might not have to cut as many jobs, leaders said.
- ZAHN: Finally this morning, the CDC has advised people to not do what they call nonessential travel to Asia because of that.
- That's why they are sometimes called "nonessential" - because the information is not essential to the main point of the sentence.
- I think all of the above, in a sense, and I liken it to other what I call nonessential passions that we have--golf, for example, horseback riding, neither of which are to my taste.
- Well, speaking of operations, one operation that perhaps is underway even as we speak now is the evacuation of all U.S. personnel -- and those who are called nonessential personnel who may be within that region, either in Kuwait or any other country in the region.
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