English

Alternative forms

• non-manufacturing

Adjective

nonmanufacturing ‎(not comparable)

1. (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector
   • 1988, January 8, “Grant Pick”, in A Plant Dies in Cragin:

     Between 1962 and 1984, Chicago lost 244,000 manufacturing jobs, while the number of nonmanufacturing jobs (service, research, retail, financial, and real estate) climbed by 372,500.