NON-STANDARD


Meaning of NON-STANDARD in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

entry

Students within the non-standard entry categories did as well, if not better, than other groups of entrants.

form

But a different and less well-known set of problems emerges when attempts are made to examine alternation between standard and non-standard forms .

It should also be recognised that non-standard forms are systematic and not haphazard.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Apart from the non-standard flight instruments the Apache has a convenient office and one rapidly feels at home.

Example 91 uses non-standard units to avoid a relationship between different measures being known or guessed.

For it is the non-elite institutions that are in the vanguard of recruiting non-standard students.

It is housed in vertical files which are of non-standard size, and which are no longer manufactured.

M., the staff will schedule interviews during non-standard hours as necessary.

Results show that non-standard entrants achieved more good degrees than other students.

The early machines, the 1512 and the 1640, used plastic cases and a non-standard size.

This, and other similar non-standard methods make d'Compress harder to use than it need be.

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