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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Non-Starter, non-starter: Wordnik
  2. non-starter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. non-starter: Wiktionary
  4. non-starter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. non-starter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. non-starter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. non-starter: Medical dictionary

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noun:  Someone or something who was listed to start in a race, but did not start in the race.
noun:  Something that is destined to fail from the outset; an impractical scheme.
noun:  (idiomatic) An idea or argument that cannot be sensibly debated.

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