noncontraband
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈkɒntrəˌbænd/
- Formal
:
legal
- The authorities conducted a thorough inspection and found only noncontraband items in the vehicle.
Examples
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During the customs check, the officer confirmed that the luggage contained noncontraband goods.
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At the border, travelers are allowed to bring noncontraband items without any additional fees.
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Otherwise, the police will be unable to demonstrate that they were assured in advance that the search technique could not reveal noncontraband information.
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Because the presence of such noncontraband scents is never revealed to the human handler, the Fourth Amendment is not implicated.
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The possibility of revealing noncontraband information merely means that the use of radiological sensors is a search—not that the search is unreasonable.
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Moreover, the Court has had no reason to clarify whether the binary search doctrine distinguishes between contraband and evidence more generally because no technology has been able to noninvasively provide binary information about the presence or absence of noncontraband evidence.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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2.9
Allowed by the law
37
4.1
Allowed by law, rules, or custom
13
2.7
Rules or laws permit it
1
7.7
Something the law or rules allow
Antonyms
How Forbidden
Surface Forms
Morphology
noncontraband = contraband (transparent) = non + contraband
The meaning is a straightforward negation of 'contraband' using the productive prefix 'non-'.
Etymology
Noncontraband comes from the prefix non- 'not' and contraband, where ban means 'to forbid'. So noncontraband means 'not banned', or allowed by law.