nondisabled

adjective

non·​dis·​abled ˌnän-dis-ˈā-bəld How to pronounce nondisabled (audio)
-diz-ˈā-
: not affected with a disability : not disabled
people with disabilities and their nondisabled peers

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According to a 2024 Labor Department report, the employment rate for working-age people with disabilities was 38% compared with 75% for nondisabled people. Lauren Shallish, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2025 And second, entrepreneurs with disabilities are 400 times less likely to receive venture capital than their nondisabled peers. Doug Melville, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 Between 2023 and 2024, the most significant drop in survivor benefits occurred for nondisabled and disabled widows and widowers, with the two groups combining for a benefit loss of 19,000 people. Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 The device predicts the wrong word less than 3 percent of the time, an error rate on par with nondisabled speakers reading a paragraph aloud. Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nondisabled

Word History

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of nondisabled was in 1894

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“Nondisabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nondisabled. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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