1926 4 564/2 As a result of the multiplicity of formal organizations in the community, there develop the ‘joiner’ and the ‘non-joiner’.
1964 R. Miliband in I. L. Horowitz 78 Mills was a determined non-joiner, with an intense dislike of togetherness.
1994 T. Byrne (ed. 6) xiii. 456 Maintaining open channels of communication with the whole community..can encourage the ‘non-joiners’ to participate.