extragovernmental
extragovernmental adjective: existing apart from or beyond the government.
Adjective
extragovernmental (comparative more extragovernmental, superlative most extragovernmental)
- Existing apart from or beyond the government.
- The Bourne series has two great legacies, and one of them — we'll get to the other in a bit — is the way its films tried to engage with the politics of their era, the way they allowed for lots of meaty complications that wrestled with the extragovernmental actions of George W. Bush's national...2016 July 28, Emily St. James, “Jason Bourne review: Matt Damon is back in a greatest hits cover album of the other 3 films”, in Vox, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2023
- Villanelle's kills are being ordered by the sort of shady extragovernmental organisation that might have seemed fanciful in a time before we'd heard of polonium. Yet "the 12", as they are known, are not purely fictional.2018 September 2, Benji Wilson, “Jodie Comer on Killing Eve — the new TV series from Fleabag writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
Forms of extragovernmental
| comparative | more extragovernmental |
|---|---|
| superlative | most extragovernmental |
Origin of extragovernmental
From extra- (“outside of, beyond”) + governmental.
Questions about extragovernmental
- What does extragovernmental mean?
- Extragovernmental means existing apart from or beyond the government.
- What part of speech is extragovernmental?
- Extragovernmental is an adjective.
Words near extragovernmental in the dictionary
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