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non-renewableadjective1(Of a contract or agreement) not able to be renewed: a non-renewable 15-year term of office...- Many low-cost term-life-insurance policies expire and are nonrenewable when you turn 65.
- The advantage of long, and nonrenewable, terms is that the members of the second chamber would truly be independent in that nothing which they did could affect their continued membership.
- The other ten members of the council are elected by the General Assembly to two-year nonrenewable terms, with five new members elected each year.
2(Of a natural resource or source of energy) existing in finite quantity; not capable of being replenished: non-renewable fossil fuels...- Our primary source of energy - oil - is nonrenewable and exhaustible.
- These hidden gardens, protected by a strong street-facing facade, are oases for the office workers, producing a tempered microclimate while minimizing use of nonrenewable energy in very hot climates.
- These materials are all nonrenewable, require vast amounts of energy to manufacture and recycle and are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.
noun (usually non-renewables) A non-renewable natural resource or source of energy: sustainability of the supply of non-renewables such as gas is crucial...- Perhaps I shouldn't have cancelled the air-conditioning to cut our use of non-renewables.
- And inevitably the non-renewables will run out and we will be forced to use sustainable energy.
- Does he seriously see us moving to renewable resources while there are still non-renewables we can burn?
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