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nonpartisan
[ non-pahr-tuh-zuhn ]
adjective
- not supporting or controlled by a political party, special interest group, or the like.
Synonyms: disinterested
noun
- a person who is nonpartisan.
nonpartisan
/ ˌnɒnpɑːtɪˈzæn /
adjective
- not partisan or aligned, esp not affiliated to, influenced by, or supporting any one political party
Derived Forms
- ˌnonpartiˈsanˌship, noun
Other Words From
- non·parti·san·ship noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of nonpartisan1
Example Sentences
For the thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money.
A joint statement released by Pepco and WIN says WIN, which was founded in 1996, is a “broad-based, multi-racial, multi-faith strictly nonpartisan, District-wide citizens’ power organization, rooted in local congregations and associations.”
It also offers some general recommendations, including a congressional commission on nonpartisan election reform.
Haley Swenson is a writer and researcher and the deputy director of the Better Life Lab, a work, gender, and social policy program at the nonpartisan think tank New America.
Just as journalists eventually developed a code of ethics, there is also a place for editorial standards in our online media landscape developed through independent, nonpartisan and transparent processes.
And perhaps most enticingly, at least to employees I spoke with, the network would be staunchly nonpartisan.
To be fair, there are nonpartisan, academic roots to the vision of the Cold War as a model of stability, not volatility.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has currently classified the Colorado Senate race as a tossup.
“They need more watching than members of Congress,” says Bert Brandenburg, executive director of the nonpartisan Justice at Stake.
For instance, in 2012, nonpartisan pollster Gallup whiffed and showed Romney ahead on Election Day nationwide.
North Dakota blows down the Nonpartisan League and discovers that darned thing was loaded in both barrels.
Indignation at the defeat of the bill resulted in the birth, in February 1915, of a new political party, the Nonpartisan League.
A treatise on agricultural credit, wheat trade, and politics, with a chapter on the birth of the Nonpartisan League.
Some farmers objected to the Grange because it was a secret organization; others, because it was nonpartisan.
Since this is a nonpartisan article designed to promote good feeling it will probably be just as well not to go into this.
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