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extragovernmental

adj

Etymology

From extra- (“outside of, beyond”) + governmental.

  1. derived from governement
  2. inherited from governement
  3. formed as governmental — “government + -al”
  4. prefixed as extragovernmental — “extra- + governmental”

Definitions

  1. Existing apart from or beyond the government.

    • 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.
    • It is true that C.B.P. is not an extragovernmental militia, and so might not fit precisely into Snyder's "On Tyranny" schema. But when I spoke to Snyder on Monday, he suggested the distinction isn't that significant.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA