non-inscrit

English

Etymology

From French non (“not”) inscrit (“registered”).

Noun

non-inscrit (plural non-inscrits)

1. (politics, especially in France and UK, Ireland) An independent politician.
   • 1972, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command:

     A non inscrit can produce amendments but he cannot be a rapporteur.

   • 1986, Philip E. Converse, Roy Pierce, Political Representation in France, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 548:

     Lastly, a pair of moves that are invisible in Table 17-4 involves one non-inscrit who affiliated with the Gaullist group only to return to the ranks of the non-inscrits one week later.

   • 2009, P. Smith, The Senate of the Fifth French Republic, Springer, →ISBN, page 178:

     The vice-presidents are members, along with the chairs of the six permanent commissions, the rapporteur général of the finance commission, the presidents of the political groups (including a delegate representing the non-inscrits) [...]

2. (politics) A member of a party which is not part of a European political group.
   • 2009, Jacques Thomassen, The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     Finally there is the group of the 'Non Inscrits', which traditionally has been dominated by extreme-right members.

   • 2011, Nigel Farage, Flying Free, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

     What she meant, of course, was that she was fed up with being a 'non inscrit' member and would like to be accepted into our group.

   • 2016, Michelle Cini, Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan, European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162:

     The EFDD therefore captures the complex dynamics at work within the Parliament where there are now many Eurosceptic MEPs, in the EFDD, the European Conservative Reform Group (ECR), the ENF, and among the non-inscrit, but the diverse nature of that scepticism and disagreements over many policy areas make it very difficult to maintain harmony within and across such eclectic groupings for a full five-year parliamentary term.

French

Adjective

non-inscrit (feminine non-inscrite, masculine plural non-inscrits, feminine plural non-inscrites)

1. non-inscrit

Further reading

• “non-inscrit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.