Definition of "nonpermissive" [nonpermissive]

• Not permissive. (adjective)

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• "Contracted police trainers often cannot or will not operate in nonpermissive environments, thus confning their training to the capital city or secure areas while leaving unsecured remoter areas of a country without desperately needed police trainers and mentors, as is often the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today."
• "The original experiments reconstituting GroEL-GroES-mediated protein folding were carried out under "nonpermissive" conditions, where the chaperonin system was absolutely required and substrate proteins could not achieve the native state if diluted directly from denaturant into solution."
• "Now, from the war that brought us nonpermissive environment, we have a distinction drawn between disarm and demilitarize."