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Nonpartisan   Listen
adjective
nonpartisan  adj.  
1.
Free from party affiliation or bias. Opposite of partisan. (Narrower terms: bipartisan, bipartizan, two-party, two-way; independent) (Narrower terms: nonparty, non-party)
Synonyms: nonpartizan.
2.
Not affiliated with any one party; as, a nonpartisan commission to study crime.





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"Nonpartisan" Quotes from Famous Books



... the opinion that the Commissioner of the General Land Office should be relieved from the duty of deciding litigated land cases, that a nonpartisan court should be created to pass on such cases, and that the decisions of this court should be final, at least so far as the decisions of the Department are now final. The proposed court might be given authority to certify questions of law ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland
... fight and crush and beat labor. It was in no sense a local movement because it started in Seattle and it was organized by people from Seattle, and the purpose was to organize in Centralia an organization of business men to combat this new labor philosophy. Whether in the mouths of the I.W.W., or Nonpartisan League, or the Socialists, it did not make any difference; to brand anybody as a traitor, un-American, who sought to tell the truth about ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin


Words linked to "Nonpartisan" :   bipartizan, bipartisan, individual, independent, two-way, unbiassed, nonpartizan, somebody, someone


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