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non-Communist

American  
[non-kom-yuh-nist] / nɒnˈkɒm jə nɪst /

adjective

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


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

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The fourth spot usually goes to the head of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the advisory group to the NPC that also oversees non-Communist groupings, religious organizations and minority groups.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 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

In 1954, after Vietnam gained independence through a guerrilla war waged against the French, the country was divided into the Communist North and the non-Communist South.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2016

By then Korea had been split into a Communist North and a non-Communist South under an agreement in 1945 between the United States and the Soviet Union.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014

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

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