nonmanual

adjective

Definition of nonmanualnext
as in motorized

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Recent Examples of nonmanual The notion that businesses should care about happiness arose with the increase of nonmanual jobs, said Alex Edmans, a finance professor at London Business School. — New York Times, 16 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonmanual
  1. motorized
  2. automated
  3. mechanical
  4. automatic
  5. computerized
Adjective
  • Instead of relying on a motorized mount to track the sky, its CMOS sensor physically rotates to cancel that rotation out, right at the image plane.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Despite the challenges presented by motorized transport, the early Teamsters did not fight the innovation.
    — Mark Dalton, Oc Register, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of motorized
Adjective
  • All those features make the smart rod a worthy addition to any automated home.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Bot monetization is how a business earns a return when automated software uses its content, data or digital services.
    — Rishi Katdare, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of automated
Adjective
  • In those environments, workers are forced to absorb the mechanical friction that the system failed to accommodate.
    — Allan Malcolm, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Traditionally, shrinking these grains required violent mechanical force.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of mechanical
Adjective
  • The obvious next step is to make the system more automatic, not less.
    — Mark Lewyn, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Agentic payments can make compensation granular, automatic and economically viable at machine scale.
    — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of automatic
Adjective
  • The ability to fabricate and manufacture difficult objects has largely become computerized.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But the very act of putting on a wearable—of willingly adorning oneself with a tiny computerized narc—is an act of surrender.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of computerized

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“Nonmanual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonmanual. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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