单词 | non-answering |
释义 | non-answeringn. Failure to answer or respond. ΚΠ 1850 in Jrnl. Negro Hist. (1925) 10 754 I pray you to pardon the non-answering of your very kind invitation. 1943 Economica 10 109 The non-answering of the question. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. 111/3 I deplore the non-answering of letters. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). non-answeringadj. That gives no answer or response; that fails to answer. ΚΠ 1861 N.Y. Times 10 Sept. 4/6 An attachment was ordered against the non-answering witness. 1949 Sociometry 12 159 The indices here reported would be higher if the answers of the non-answering group had been icluded. 1983 Amer. Econ. Rev. 73 419/1 The matched sample may well reflect schools that have a better record..than the nonanswering departments. 1991 Public Opinion Q. 55 210 Adoption of this strategy..would bias the contact rate of the non-answering machine households. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850adj.1861 |
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