Definition of "nonbiodegradable" [nonbiodegradable]

• Not biodegradable (adjective)
• Any substance that is not biodegradable. (noun)

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• "While Petraeus tries to prepare the U.S. public for increasing loss of U.S. troops 'lives, I must note that the loss of Afghan civilian's lives is 1) much greater than the number of US troops killed, and 2) usually of no consequence at all to US war planners, except when they become "nonbiodegradable""
• "Abu Ghraib and other situations like that are nonbiodegradable."
• "“That poor girl!” said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with nonbiodegradable plastic applicators."