nonmajor

noun

non·ma·jor ˌnän-ˈmā-jər

plural nonmajors

: someone or something that is not a major: such as

: a student who is not majoring in the subject being studied

a history course for nonmajors

: a golf or tennis tournament that is not a major

Nearly 5 million viewers watched the final round of the Wyndham Championship two weeks ago, making it the network's best viewership in a nonmajor in more than three years.—

Tom Jones

nonmajor adjective

a nonmajor event

a nonmajor league

nonmajor projects

Examples of nonmajor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web If Johnson and Matsuyama retreat Sunday, this could become the first nonmajor since the 1981 AT&T to have a winner with an over-par score. —

Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2020

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