How to Use nonagricultural in a Sentence

nonagricultural

adjective
  • Over the year, nonagricultural employment in the state grew by 8,100 jobs, or a half-percent.
    Stephen Singer, courant.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The visas, which are for temporary, nonagricultural jobs, are...
    Laura Meckler, WSJ, 21 June 2017
  • The visas are for seasonal workers in nonagricultural jobs.
    Scott Dance, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • In the city of San Diego, for example, irrigation of nonagricultural landscapes will be limited to three days a week before 10 a.m. or after 6 p.m.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2022
  • The most common visas were J-1s, which provide short-term visas to students, for example, and H-2Bs for temporary nonagricultural workers.
    Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Child labor laws are different in every state, but the U.S. Department of Labor is firm with 14 being the minimum for nonagricultural jobs.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
  • At issue are H-2B temporary visas, which are issued for workers holding down seasonal, nonagricultural jobs.
    Olivia Lowenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2017
  • The question at hand was whether nonagricultural industries should guarantee their employees an annual wage.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2020
  • His article included a number of other economic elements that would contribute to a recession, such as a decline in industrial production over a six-month period and a 1.5% decline in nonagricultural employment.
    Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 28 May 2020
  • As increased agricultural output attenuates fears of famine, daily life in rural communities is improving, while the expansion of nonagricultural rural industries offers them alternative sources of income.
    Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2021

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