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nonessential

adjective as in not needed or important

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Example Sentences

Deemed nonessential, the civilian DCMA employees have been furloughed.

Apparently, 72 percent of intelligence agency civilian workers have been deemed nonessential temporarily let go.

She must decide which employees are “nonessential” and can therefore be furloughed.

All nonessential personnel were being evacuated late Tuesday from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Men who arrive anywhere in any direction always have the habit of ignoring the nonessential more or less strongly developed.

And when he came the following day he apparently had once more restored her father to his proper place of a nonessential.

Error and nonessential dividing lines will disappear if neglected.

What is essential and what nonessential depends upon the particular end we have in view.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nonessential, such as: unnecessary, deadwood, inessential, peripheral, petty, and dispensable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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