nongovernment
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- noun
- /nʌnˈɡʌvərnmənt/
:
organización no gubernamental
- Many people volunteer with nongovernment organizations to help those in need around the world.
- nongovernment organizations
Examples
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Participants include federal, state, and local agencies; universities; private landowners; city governments; nongovernment organizations; and unaffiliated individuals.
Academic text (2007) -
These questions, nevertheless, have a bearing on discussions of the place of private—or, as we shall say, nongovernment—education in our society, as well as on the degree of curricular centralization.
Academic text (1998) -
Consequently, social workers may need to focus on finding alternative nongovernment sources of support for specific immigrant clients in need.
Academic text (1997) -
These include education sectors, researchers, research institutions, farmers, seed companies, agro-dealers, farming communities, and nongovernment organizations within Africa.
Academic text (2008) -
Many individuals and both government and nongovernment agencies were engaged in numerous positive follow-up actions in the days following Hurricane Katrina.
Academic text (2006) -
In this process, we have worked closely with two nongovernment organizations (Panthera and Rimba) and incorporated extensive feedback from professional patrolling teams.
Academic text (2016) -
They do not deny that sending one's children to nongovernment schools withdraws them from civic life, but argue that it is a freedom that a liberal society must permit because of liberalism's commitment to the private rights of belief and association.
Academic text (1998) -
Afghanistan today would be less dangerous for almost all involved—civilians, government officials, nongovernment organizations, journalists, Afghan military and police forces, and Western troops—if the refuse of former empires and the handouts of current governments were not so widely present in the field.
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The charity works alongside several nongovernment groups to provide assistance to refugees.
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She decided to join a nongovernment organization focused on environmental conservation in her community.
Synonyms
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3.7
A group not part of any government that helps people or protects the environment
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A group that works without government to help people in need
A person, group, or organization not part of any government
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
nongovernment = government (transparent) = non + government
The noun sense denotes an entity 'not part of the government' created by applying the productive negating prefix 'non-' to 'government'.
Etymology
Nongovernment comes from non- 'not' and government 'the people who run a country'. So a nongovernment is a person or group that is 'not part of the government', for example charities or aid groups that work on their own.