nonarranged

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adjective

Based on a love match; in which the people getting married choose each other.

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Meanings

adjectivenonarranged (not comparable)
  1. Not arranged.
    1. not comparableBased on a love match; in which the people getting married choose each other.

      Having had a nonarranged marriage was found to be associated with favorable attitudes toward singlehood.

      1994, Lee-Jay Cho, Motoo Yada, Tradition and change in the Asian family, page 116
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      Korean culture includes three types of mate relationship: arranged, nonarranged (love), and eclectic (a combination of arranged and love).

      1993, Anne Maydan Nicotera, Interpersonal Communication in Friend and Mate Relationships, →ISBN

      Suppose a group of researchers wants to find psychological and behavioral similarities and differences between arranged marriages and nonarranged (love-based) marriages in the United States in a sample of families of Indian descent (Regan et al., 2012).

      2016, Eric B. Shiraev, David A. Levy, Cross-Cultural Psychology, →ISBN
    2. not comparableNot in any particular order, random.

      The intermediate layer is considerably thicker and its crystals are nonarranged, 1 to 2 microns in size.

      1972, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica - Volume 17, page 537
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      This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.

      1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases

      The meaning of tianli here is perhaps closer to something like, “spontaneous (nonfabricated, nonarranged, nonteleological) coherence.”

      2013, Brook Ziporyn, Beyond Oneness and Difference, →ISBN, pages 59–60

Origin

From non- + arranged.

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