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nongovernment

nongovernment adjective: not governmental in nature.

Adjective

nongovernment (not comparable)

  1. Not governmental in nature.
    • In this country, it is hard to find a nongovernment job.
    • The Trump administration acknowledged the messages, sent over the nongovernment encrypted chat app Signal, seem to be authentic without offering any explanation for why senior officials were discussing national defense information outside of approved classified government systems.2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat...
    Synonyms:
    nongovernmental

Noun

nongovernment (plural nongovernments)

  1. An organization that is not a government.

Synonyms of nongovernment

Forms of nongovernment

pluralnongovernments

Origin of nongovernment

From non- + government.

Questions about nongovernment

What does nongovernment mean?
Nongovernment means not governmental in nature.
What part of speech is nongovernment?
Nongovernment can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nongovernment in the dictionary

  1. nongoods
  2. nongospel
  3. nongourmet
  4. nongoverned
  5. nongoverning
  6. nongovernment
  7. nongovernmental
  8. nongovernmentally
  9. nongovernments
  10. Nongpok Ningthou
  11. nongraceful

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