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postpartisan

postpartisan adjective: moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides.

Adjective

postpartisan (comparative more postpartisan, superlative most postpartisan)

  1. (US) Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides
    • Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi[…].1995 September 18, Michael Handy, “Ich Bin Ein Magazine Editor”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2010
    • If nurtured and used creatively, they can be the lever by which Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition.2009 February 6, David Brooks, “The Gang System”, in New York Times

Forms of postpartisan

comparativemore postpartisan
superlativemost postpartisan
alternative formpost-partisan

Origin of postpartisan

From post- + partisan.

Words formed from postpartisan

Questions about postpartisan

What does postpartisan mean?
Postpartisan means moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides.
What part of speech is postpartisan?
Postpartisan is an adjective.

Words near postpartisan in the dictionary

  1. postparasitic
  2. postparietal
  3. postparoxysmal
  4. postpartal
  5. postpartally
  6. postpartisan
  7. postpartisanship
  8. postpartum
  9. postpartum depression
  10. postpartum depressions
  11. postparturient

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