non-labournon-laboradj.
/nɒnˈleɪbə/, U.S. /nɑnˈleɪbər/, Australian English /nɔnˈlæebə/ Chiefly British and Australian.
1. Designating, belonging to, or directed towards a class other than the working class; (also) not performing, concerned with, or involving work.
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1910 C. Lucas Note Visit to Austral. (Cd. 5100) 5 in Parl. Papers 1910 LXV. 677 In these British communities,..of the two main parties in the State—labour and non-labour—the latter contains..more who have the means and leisure to travel.
1992 J. A. Trevithick Involuntary Unemployment (BNC) 167 We are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output.
2001 Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 5 c Terrorist attacks Tuesday in New York and Washington led to the postponement of three days' worth of games, the most games called for non-labor reasons since the 1918 season was cut short by World War I.
2. In form non-Labour | non-Labor. Not relating to, not a member of, or not controlled by the Labour Party.
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1927 E. S. Griffith Mod. Devel. of City Govt. in U.K. & U.S. I. 347 In Birmingham a non-Labour majority adopted the policy of putting a Labour member on each employing committee.
1966 Times Austral. Suppl. 28 Mar. p. viii/4 New South Wales..is traditionally a Labour state, just as Victoria is non-Labour.
1971 L. F. Crisp in Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. 216/1 Following the outbreak of war in 1939 the non-Labour Government..appointed Chifley a member of the Capital Issues Advisory Board.
2001 Observer (Nexis) 1 July 3 Members will vote on whether to fund non-Labour prospective MPs in election campaigns.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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