Definition of nonclerical in US English:
nonclerical
adjectiveˌnänˈklerikəlˌnänˈklerikəl
1Not doing or involving routine clerical work in an office.
Example sentencesExamples
- Its second round of voluntary retirement scheme, completed last month, attracted applications from 514 employees among banking assistants and the non-clerical staff.
2Not relating to or belonging to the clergy.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1951, however, the house passed into non-clerical hands and became the family home of David and Rosemary Verey.
- He weakened the grip of the Roman Catholic Church on education, extended higher education, created lycées for girls, and made French elementary education non-clerical, free, and compulsory.
Synonyms
non-clerical, non-ordained, non-ecclesiastical, secular, temporal