单词 | unprocedural |
释义 | unproceduraladj. Now chiefly East African, South African, and Philippine English. That does not follow ordinary or official procedure; irregular, illegal. ΚΠ 1929 Yale Law Jrnl. 38 630 In spite of Judge Cardozo's declaration that the arbitration provision was purely ‘remedial’ other portions of his opinion do reveal that unprocedural considerations actually had weight in inducing conclusion in this particular case. 1990 A. F. D. Anangwe Politics Decentralization Kenya (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Manch.) vi. 416 Arrangements had to be made in some of the districts for suppliers to be paid in advance; this entailed using unprocedural devices like ‘pro forma invoices’ [etc.]. 2019 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 30 May 2 Durban residents took the metro to court over the unprocedural building of cell masts. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1929 |
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