📄 A legal ban 📊 No connection 🚫 No involvement

nonassociation

9.3

A rule that says a person must not meet or work with certain people

noun
/ˌnɒnəˈseɪʃən/

Formal

: no asociación

The contract included a nonassociation clause to prevent employees from joining rival companies.

Examples

The court upheld the nonassociation provision as part of the settlement terms.
Violating the nonassociation agreement could result in legal action against the former partner.
The contract included a nonassociation clause.
Many companies use nonassociations to protect their interests.
The contract included a nonassociation clause to prevent employees from joining rival companies.
Violating the nonassociation agreement could result in legal action against the former partner.
The court upheld the nonassociation provision as part of the settlement terms.

Antonyms

association

131 3.0

A connection between people, groups, or things, often from working together

How Restrictive

court order

Formal

108 3.5

to ban

Formal

484 1.4

nonassociation

Formal

9.3

restriction

340 3.0

term

Formal

∞ 3.3

recommendation

553 2.5

Surface Forms

nonassociation singular

nonassociations plural

Morphology

nonassociation = association (transparent) = non + association

Formed by the productive negating prefix 'non-' attached to the noun 'association', so the meaning 'not associated' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Nonassociation comes from non- 'not' and association 'joining' or 'connection', the same root you see in social and society, which comes from a word for 'companion'. So a nonassociation clause in a contract means you are 'not to join' or meet certain people, which is why it does not allow contact.