nongovernment
English
Alternative forms
- non-government
Etymology
From non- + government.
Adjective
nongovernment (not comparable)
- Not governmental in nature.
- In this country, it is hard to find a nongovernment job.
- 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 on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans”, in CNN[1]:
- 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.
Synonyms
Noun
nongovernment (plural nongovernments)
- An organization that is not a government.