nonrenewable

Examples

• All

• Moreover, because he is serving a nonrenewable six-year term, Salinas's reforms may be undone by his successor.

  Academic text (1991)

• For example, the judges of the French Constitutional Council serve a nonrenewable term of nine years.

  Academic text (2006)

• Students also explore renewable and nonrenewable resources of energy.

  Academic text (2007)

• There was low use of nonrenewable materials, such as metals and plastic.

  Academic text (2009)

• All these have no future in a world that is constrained in terms of energy and nonrenewable resources.

  Academic text (2010)

• Extensive suburban development in the past placed increasing pressures on land, nonrenewable resources, wildlife, and our environment.

  Academic text (2012)

• As humans begin to consume more of our renewable and nonrenewable resources, sustainable development is becoming increasingly important.

  Academic text (2012)

• The Justices' terms would be nonrenewable: no Justice could be reappointed to a second term.

  Academic text (2006)

• It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of life that's based on the use of nonrenewable resources won't last.

  END:CIV (2011)

• Many ingredients in regular cleaners are also made from petroleum, a nonrenewable resource.

Synonyms

U

unrenewable

vsnonrenewable

6.8

Cannot be made new again

includes inability to be substituted or reused after expiration

U

unreplaceable

vsnonrenewable

6.6

Not able to be made again if lost or damaged

applies to items that cannot be made new or reused after regular use or expiration

Antonyms

R

renewable

108 3.8

Able to be extended for another fixed time

How Renewable

sustainable

183 4.5

renewable

108 3.8

exhaustible

1 6.5

nonrenewable

• Specialized

2 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology