non-Communist

American  

[non-kom-yuh-nist] / nɒnˈkɒm yə nɪst /

adjective

1. not following, belonging to, or associated with the Communist Party or Communism.

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noun

1. a person who does not belong to or follow the Communist Party or Communism.

Etymology

Origin of non-Communist

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

As a non-Communist Party member, he was one of the most pro-reform voices at Guangming Daily and wrote articles in favor of an independent legal system, his family said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

As a writer for the Evening Star put it: “Despite a lot of wishful thinking in the non-Communist world, the reaper was a long time catching up with Joseph Stalin.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2022

As the historian Landon Storrs has shown, social democrats and other non-Communist leftists in the federal bureaucracy—especially women—had their careers destroyed.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2021

He said that he had been influenced by his German grandmother, who fled the Sudetenland before World War II, and that he had been drawn to Mr. Engdahl’s vision of “a non-Communist, socialist Europe.”

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2018

The Christian Democratic Union, a non-Communist party pushing for reunification with West Germany, emerged victorious.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau