Meanings
adjectivenon-standard (comparative more non-standard, superlative most non-standard)
comparative more non-standard · superlative most non-standard
- alternativeAlternative form of nonstandard.
By 1932, nearly all the odd non-standard engines, which the L.M.S.R. and the L.N.E.R. had acquired at the grouping, had disappeared.
1950 September, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 591
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