nonpartisan

Or non·par·ti·zan

[non-pahr-tuh-zuhn]

adjective

1. not partisan; objective.

2. not supporting or controlled by a political party, special interest group, or the like.

   Synonyms: disinterested

noun

1. a person who is nonpartisan.

nonpartisan

/ ˌnɒnpɑːtɪˈzæn /

adjective

1. not partisan or aligned, esp not affiliated to, influenced by, or supporting any one political party

Other Word Forms

• nonpartisanship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonpartisan¹

First recorded in 1880–85; non- + partisan ¹

Example Sentences

His love of theme parks runs deep, and is, of course, nonpartisan.

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Senate to urge streaming companies to begin offering customers the privately funded television service, which has provided nonpartisan gavel-to-gavel television coverage of congressional hearings and roll call votes for decades.

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“Our philosophy has always been that the IGS poll is a nonpartisan poll,” he said.

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In a 432-page lawsuit, Republican lawmakers said the effort by Democrats to unwind the state’s nonpartisan congressional districts is a violation of Californians’ rights to fair and nonpartisan electoral maps.

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Lucy Dadayan, a researcher who studies sin taxes at the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., said the California predicament reflects a larger problem with sin taxes.

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Related Words

• independent 
• neutral 
• nonaligned 
• unbiased 
• uninvolved