Definition of "noninvestment" [noninvestment]

• Not of or pertaining to an investment. (adjective)
• Lack of investment. (noun)

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• "We are probably looking at somewhere between a 20 to 30 percent cut in what I would call the noninvestment, noninitiative areas of the budget over that period of 10 years."
• "That pool includes investment-grade and noninvestment grade loans."
• "Moody's said late Tuesday it made the one notch downgrade to noninvestment territory because it sees a high risk of Ireland needing a second bailout at the end of 2013 when the country is supposed to have weaned itself off its EU and International Monetary Fund €67.5 billion $94.34 billion aid program."