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  • adjective Not secure.

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non- +‎ secure

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Examples

  • The shackling policy even applied to youths being held at what are known as nonsecure facilities.

    Crime Waves: 'Preying on Elderly Lonely Hearts' 2010

  • The shackling policy even applied to youths being held at what are known as nonsecure facilities.

    Crime Waves: 'Preying on Elderly Lonely Hearts' 2010

  • An environment suffers a "nonsecure" state, and the security team wants to promote a transition to a "secure" state

    TaoSecurity 2010

  • I list them in no particular order: Porous e-mail communications, an Internet with infinite recall across time and geographical space, search engines that can pick you out from among millions, nonsecure cellphone communications, video cameras in lobbies and banks and on streets and roofs, data accumulation centers with knowledge of everything from our health defects to bank balances -- and the like.

    Relationships Of Mutual Mistrust 2010

  • Nearly all of the youths in nonsecure facilities have been placed there for the equivalent of nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, like truancy, graffiti or petty theft, and most are under 16 years old.

    Crime Waves: 'Preying on Elderly Lonely Hearts' 2010

  • From the information we have gathered from radio chatter on nonsecure lines, it is safe to assume that they have put up a forward camp in this vicinity to find us.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • Nearly all of the youths in nonsecure facilities have been placed there for the equivalent of nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, like truancy, graffiti or petty theft, and most are under 16 years old.

    Crime Waves: 'Preying on Elderly Lonely Hearts' 2010

  • From the information we have gathered from radio chatter on nonsecure lines, it is safe to assume that they have put up a forward camp in this vicinity to find us.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • The list goes on: A lack of support staff is so severe it forces SEC attorneys to send confidential documents to nonsecure copy shops.

    Madoff Scandal Expands / Frontline Video 2009

  • The government's case against Lee revolves around charges that he downloaded nuclear-weapons secrets to a nonsecure computer and then stored them on 10 computer tapes, seven of which are now missing.

    A Case Based On Race? 2008

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