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

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024