Definition of "nonrevenue" [nonrevenue]

• Not of or pertaining to revenue. (adjective)

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• "I think they should go to their revenue-generating bases, which are basketball and football, and particularly if you hire the athletes in those sports, I think the other sports, which are tremendously expensive, they're called nonrevenue sports for a reason because they lose so much money, I think they would have to drop down much more to club status like at Emory."
• "That means some 88 percent of the top football programs lose money for their universities -- and that doesn't even include the reams of cash the schools are spending on the so-called nonrevenue sports."
• "IBM is trying to reduce what's known as nonrevenue water."