nonfuel

English

Etymology

non- +‎ fuel

Adjective

nonfuel (not comparable)

1. Not associated with fuel.
   • 2007 December 13, Nicola Clark, “Airline Trade Group Predicts a Further Drop in Profit Next Year”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Aggressive efforts to cut costs have reduced nonfuel expenses by 16 percent since 2001, and for the first 10 months of this year, passenger traffic rose 7.3 percent from the period a year earlier.

Noun

nonfuel (countable and uncountable, plural nonfuels)

1. Any substance that is not a fuel.