Nonattainment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Failure to attain a particular standard. uncountable

    "There's the 1993 [federal air pollution] study on ozone nonattainment coming up."

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"There's the 1993 [federal air pollution] study on ozone nonattainment coming up."

Etymology

From non- + attainment.

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