non-governmental

non-governmental

See also: nongovernmental

English

Alternative forms

• nongovernmental

Etymology

non- +‎ governmental

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

non-governmental (not comparable)

1. Not belonging to, associated with or operated by a particular government.

   His work is largely non-governmental.

Usage notes

• The hyphenated form is much more common in the British corpus while the solid form in the American one.[1] GPO manual item 6.29. recommends to spell non- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]

Antonyms

• governmental

Derived terms

• non-governmental organization

Translations

not belonging to a particular government

Chinese: Mandarin: 非政府 (zh) (fēizhèngfǔ) Esperanto: neregistara Finnish: yksityinen (fi), kansalais- (fi) Georgian: არასამთავრობო (arasamtavrobo) Polish: pozarządowy (pl) Russian: негосуда́рственный (ru) m (negosudárstvennyj) Ukrainian: неурядо́вий (neurjadóvyj)

References

1. non-governmental, nongovernmental at Google Ngram Viewer
2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov