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单词 non-active
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Definition of non-active in English:

non-active

adjective
  • 1Not participating or working.

    non-active trustees
    a non-active placebo tablet
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Consumers, including non-active duty personnel, can take various actions to minimize the risks of identity theft.
    • Agreements made by the Unions in the course of negotiations of pension benefits are binding on active and non-active members of the Plan.
    • Small environmental changes can produce conditions that are more suitable to a portion of the non-active bacterial population.
    • They will be interviewed on-farm or, in the case of non-active members, by telephone.
    • Half were given the cream and the rest a non-active placebo.
    • While a number of dioceses have adequate funding to provide for their non-active priests, the growing number of clergy who are in line for retirement means all dioceses could be facing a greater financial burden in the medium term.
    • Gang members active over the entire four-year period had mortality rates of 25 percent, while nonactive members had mortality rates below 2 percent.
    • In the present study, sentences that were active were judged to be more important and were read more slowly than nonactive sentences.
    • Conflicts routinely erupt as a result of disagreements over how exactly to represent non-active shareholders on the board.
    • Existing dairy farmers face a situation where non-active dairy farmers, merely by taking their single farm payment, could end up better off than those actively farming.
    • Remember, these diseases can wax and wane with time, and if in a nonactive state, treatment may not be helpful, and only result in side effects.
    • A placebo is a non-active 'medication' that a patient believes to be a drug of some kind.
    • The chair has to communicate the frustrations of the active trustees to the nonactive trustees in order to stimulate their participation in board activities.
    • Mr Lingham is a non-active director and adviser for Brunshaw Neighbourhood Estate Management Board Association.
    • Non-active family members, who were shareholders of the family firm, had indicated a preference for regular dividend payments.
    • The Unions did in fact negotiate improved pension benefits for both active and non-active members.
    • As farmers get older and cease to milk cows the issue of non-active shareholders is emerging as a major issue.
    Synonyms
    inactive, non-participative, non-participating, uninvolved, dormant, quiescent, inert
  • 2Not engaging in physically energetic pursuits.

    a non-active lifestyle can affect health
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Female fitness instructors who exercised an average of 3.8 times per week had lower iron stores than non-active women.
    • Females classified as highly active were more likely to have used alcohol and to have binge drank compared to non-active individuals.
    • Nutritionalists suggest that non-active people should drink about 3-4 pints of water a day, though few do.
    • He recruited groups of non-athletic men aged 20 to 43, either to play football or go jogging three times a week, before comparing the results with a control group of similarly aged non-active men.
    • They compared changes in exercise benefits and barriers in Mexican-American women who participated in a 9-month intervention to changes in non-active control groups of Mexican-American and Caucasian women.
    • The Guides recommend that inactive children and youth increase time spent on physical activity, and reduce "nonactive" time spent on TV, video, computer games and the internet.
    • If we know that Joe Bloggs regularly goes jogging for half an hour three times a week, we look on him as an active person expending much more daily energy than the average non-active person.
    • The exact amount varies for an active athlete to a non-active person, but you can safely say that we should drink almost a gallon a day.
    • The increased social activities of summer may make non-active people feel more isolated - and at greater risk of hurting themselves.
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