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multipartisan

multipartisan adjective: relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.

Adjective

multipartisan (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
    • It is, in effect, a multipartisan approach to enlist support for qualified women candidates for local, county and state offices.1973 March 25, Joan Cook, “Feminist Paper for Women Is a Success”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023
    • It is probably easier for Wahid to take the military to task, since there exists a broad, multipartisan consensus for getting the generals out of politics.2000 June 2, Jose Manuel Tesoro, “Open But Not Shut”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2011

Origin of multipartisan

From multi- + partisan.

Words formed from multipartisan

  • multipartisanship

Questions about multipartisan

What does multipartisan mean?
Multipartisan means relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
What part of speech is multipartisan?
Multipartisan is an adjective.

Words near multipartisan in the dictionary

  1. multiparters
  2. multiparticipant
  3. multiparticipation
  4. multiparticle
  5. multiparticulate
  6. multipartisan
  7. multipartism
  8. multipartisms
  9. multipartist
  10. multipartists
  11. multipartite

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