Definition of "non-use" []

• The fact of not using; abandonment or neglect of use; failure to use. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The non-use argument on the part of the Fund seems to suggest that the general public isn't getting bang for its buck, and I would tend to agree that the current very limited uses of the park which restrict access to the park don't serve the general public well enough."
• "But she also supports her explanation of nuclear non-use by citing an important study of the period by the nuclear historian and analyst George Quester."
• "Tannewald covers three possible factors that might explain non-use."