nonmanual
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5.1
Not using hands or physical effort, for example office jobs
- adjective
- /nɒnˈmæn.ju.əl/
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no manual
- Some careers, like those in finance, are classified as nonmanual due to their reliance on analytical and organizational skills.
Examples
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Office workers often engage in nonmanual tasks such as data entry and analysis instead of hands-on work.
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First, women employed in nonmanual occupations received benefits above the national average.
Academic text (1999) -
The leading student of the antebellum middle class, Stuart Blumin, defines it along fairly arbitrary occupational lines, focusing on the line between the middling and lower sort, and arguing that what distinguished the two was nonmanual versus manual work.
Academic text (1996) -
Many technology jobs are considered nonmanual because they mainly require mental skills and do not involve physical labor.
Antonyms
How Manual
Surface Forms
nonmanual positive
Morphology
Etymology
Nonmanual joins non- 'not' and manual 'hand' or 'work done by hand'. So a nonmanual job is one that does not use the hands or physical work.