nonmanufacturing
- noun
- /ˌnɒnˈmæn.juˌfæk.tʃər.ɪŋ/
- Specialized
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sector de servicios
- Since that period, however, America's nonmanufacturing productivity growth has been anemic at best, whereas manufacturing productivity has far outpaced it, generally keeping its long-term trend (albeit with a drop in the 1970s), with an impressive acceleration in the mid-1980s.
Examples
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Many people find employment in nonmanufacturing roles, where they provide crucial services rather than producing goods.
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Clearly, the manufacturing sector's productivity performance in the 1980s not only established postwar records but can be adjudged as spectacular when compared to the continuing anemic results (a mere 0.4 percent annual rate) in the nonmanufacturing arenas.
Academic text (1994) -
Nonmanufacturing jobs, such as those in healthcare and education, are increasingly important to the economy.
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The nonmanufacturing sector includes services like retail and finance, which are vital for economic growth.
Synonyms
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3.0
Part of the economy that provides services instead of making things, like hotels or hospitals
Antonyms
How Manufacturing
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonmanufacturing = manufacturing (transparent) = non + manufacture + ing
The prefix 'non-' negates the noun 'manufacturing', producing the clear concept 'not manufacturing' (i.e., sectors other than manufacturing).
Etymology
The word nonmanufacturing is built from non- 'not' and manufacture 'to make', and it shares its root with manual ('hand'). So the nonmanufacturing part of the economy is the area that is 'not' about producing goods but about services like healthcare, education and finance.