non-governmental

See also: nongovernmental

English

Alternative forms

• nongovernmental

Etymology

non- +‎ governmental

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

non-governmental (not comparable)

1. Not belonging to, associated with or operated by a particular government.

   His work is largely non-governmental.

Usage notes

• The hyphenated form is much more common in the British corpus while the solid form in the American one. GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell non- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.

Antonyms

• governmental

Derived terms

• non-governmental organization

Translations

not belonging to a particular government

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非政府 (zh) (fēizhèngfǔ)

• Esperanto: neregistara
• Finnish: yksityinen (fi), kansalais- (fi)
• Georgian: არასამთავრობო (arasamtavrobo)
• Polish: pozarządowy (pl)
• Portuguese: não-governamental
• Russian: негосуда́рственный (ru) m (negosudárstvennyj)
• Ukrainian: неурядо́вий (neurjadóvyj)