nonacquisitional

adjective

Not acquisitional; not involving acquisition.

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Meanings

adjectivenonacquisitional (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot acquisitional; not involving acquisition.

    Nonacquisitional studies override developmental studies.

    2014, Manel Lacorte, The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics, page 1988
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    Ah, merde, in my haste to hit the streets I brought only five euros, so good mood or not, it's gonna be a cheap-girl day of nonacquisitional pleasure.

    2006, Kirsten Lobe, Paris Hangover, page 53

    According to the authors, these techniques can provide orders of magnitude improvements in power consumption and increased accuracy of query results over nonacquisitional systems that do not actively control when and where data is collected.

    2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems

Origin

From non- + acquisitional.

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