How to Use nonagricultural in a Sentence

nonagricultural

adjective
  • Over the year, nonagricultural employment in the state grew by 8,100 jobs, or a half-percent.
    — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The bill seeks to create a new H-2C visa program to address labor shortages in nonagricultural, less-skilled, year-round jobs.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The question at hand was whether nonagricultural industries should guarantee their employees an annual wage.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2020
  • Retailers and importers of nonagricultural goods had sped up shipments in anticipation of the strike, and some ships were diverted to West Coast ports where workers are not among those striking.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The visa is for temporary, nonagricultural workers and is often used in hospitality and tourism, landscaping, construction and other industries.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The most common visas were J-1s, which provide short-term visas to students, for example, and H-2Bs for temporary nonagricultural workers.
    — Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
  • This expansion indicates both a growth in demand for agricultural seasonal workers and a policy decision to expand the number of nonagricultural seasonal visas.
    — Andrew Selee, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Switchgrass and Miscanthus grasses grown specifically for ethanol production on nonagricultural lands are also expected to add significant amounts of biomass for ethanol production in coming years.
    — Philip T. Pienkos, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
  • According to federal investigators, one of restaurants' owners also hired a child who was 13 years old at the time of employment — one year younger than the legal age for employment in restaurants and other nonagricultural jobs.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • The state routinely leads the nation in demand for H-2B visas, the nonagricultural arm of the visa program, that allows employers to hire temporary workers for work such as construction, landscaping and hospitality.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 9 July 2023
  • In the short term, expanding the number of H-1B visas for skilled professionals and H-2B visas for seasonal nonagricultural workers would help employers overcome this acute labor shortage.
    — Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2022
  • As labor availability declines because younger generations leave rural areas for cities or overseas work, and economic priorities shift toward wage labor and other nonagricultural livelihoods, even basic maintenance becomes difficult.
    — Stephen Acabado, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The new guidelines would limit the licenses to temporary agricultural workers with H-2A visas, temporary nonagricultural workers with H-2B visas and investors with E-2 visas.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Modern energy infrastructure has enabled large-scale economic enterprise that creates opportunities for nonagricultural employment, higher labor productivity, and rising incomes.
    — Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
  • One tool employers currently use to fill seasonal or short-term nonagricultural positions is the H-2B visa, a temporary, non-immigrant program frequently utilized by the hospitality and tourism sectors when there are not enough American workers available.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

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