Definition of "nonevent" []

• Informal An anticipated or highly publicized event that does not occur or proves anticlimactic or boring. (noun)

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• ""Therefore we don't see much opportunity for disappointment, and tomorrow's FOMC meeting could be one of those 'nonevent' type of announcements that we haven't seen in some time, with little currency-market reaction to the FOMC statement itself.""
• "Like many who have commented on "imitations" before him, Mallon, who writes in an easy, readable style, seems to regard the older examples he adduces of plagiarism as the quaint subjects for literary anecdote, while he bears down very hard indeed on Charles Reade (1814-84), English author of The Cloister and the Hearth, who evidently borrowed much of his material from the continent, and seems to take particular delight in the "scandal" -- best characterized as the nonevent of the year -- surrounding Jacob Epstein's Wild Oats, published in 1979."
• "Matthew Strauss, senior currency strategist of RBC Capital Markets in Toronto, says the FOMC meeting could even be a "nonevent" for currency markets in comparison."