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

The next month, he named a senior Solidarity official, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, as the first non-Communist prime minister since the early postwar years.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022

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

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