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transpartisan

transpartisan adjective: going beyond the partisan; ecumenical, universal.

Adjective

transpartisan (comparative more transpartisan, superlative most transpartisan)

  1. Going beyond the partisan; ecumenical, universal.
    • As a matter of fact, it was national or transpartisan policy and stood outside daily political controversies.1989, Hans Daalder, Galen A Irwin, Politics in the Netherlands: How Much Change?
    • Through transpartisan dialogue — and simply getting to know each other as human beings — people began to shed their biases and preconceptions.2008, Marcia Ford, We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter

Forms of transpartisan

comparativemore transpartisan
superlativemost transpartisan

Origin of transpartisan

From trans- + partisan.

Questions about transpartisan

What does transpartisan mean?
Transpartisan means going beyond the partisan; ecumenical, universal.
What part of speech is transpartisan?
Transpartisan is an adjective.

Words near transpartisan in the dictionary

  1. transparents
  2. transparietal
  3. transparify
  4. transparisteel
  5. transparotid
  6. transpartisan
  7. transpass
  8. transpassed
  9. transpasses
  10. transpassing
  11. transpassivation

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