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non-commercial | Business English

non-commercial
adjective
 FINANCE, COMMERCEukus
used to describe something that is not used in order to make money:
The software is free to download for non-commercial use.
used to describe something that does not make a profit:
Government-owned banks must have non-commercial objectives, such as lending to small farmers.

Examples of non-commercial

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The third position, which was the one finally accepted, was that only the sale of beer and not its non-commercial use should be suppressed.
What does all this mean to us as researchers and composers of non-commercial music?
Their aim is not to deny money a non-commercial dimension; the latter is simply not relevant to their questions.
Many patients or members of their household reported raising ' backyard ' or non-commercial flocks of poultry for meat or eggs.
It may not be prudent to ban non-commercial diesel vehicles.
Once again the tendency to decapitalize them all prevails in non-technical (or non-commercial) publications.
Where non-commercial cultivars are needed to suit local conditions, institutions have to devise methods of producing seed.
Categorising or defining 'commercial' as opposed to 'non-commercial' research based on outcomes would thus be unnecessary.
This was a non-commercial station financed by a licence fee.
The results are both sound and useful in demonstrating how the sustainable management of mangroves will depend on finding payments for non-commercial forest services.
The non-commercial, state-run system is equally ambivalent: though it is free from unrestrained commercialism, it is generally severely restrained by the interests of the state.
Several interesting non-commercial discs have come this way.
This exchange can be heard on a number of non-commercial recordings.
What we lack is a comparable account of non-commercial publishing in the eighteenth century.
Many issues are related to this depending mainly on the media in which a content is used and the commercial or non-commercial use of it.
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