nongovernmental

Examples

• All

• Microfinance initiatives provide a complementary approach to social protection, often delivered by the nongovernmental sector.

  Academic text (2011)

• Cultural understanding between governmental and nongovernmental organizations is just as important and will help reduce friction.

  Academic text (2011)

• Many cities obtained their first nongovernmental office buildings only in the late 1980s.

  Academic text (1993)

• In a deregulated world, global markets and nongovernmental actors play a larger role.

  Academic text (1999)

• Furthermore, forest management is criticized by some environmental nongovernmental organizations as an excuse to conduct business as usual.

  Academic text (2011)

• Some of these agencies work closely with nongovernmental organizations such as the Nature Conservancy.

  Academic text (1993)

• The concept of environmental auditing has also been embraced by nongovernmental organizations and industry.

  Academic text (1990)

• Increasingly, various kinds of nongovernmental organizations are able to mobilize the population at a grassroots level.

  Academic text (1999)

• Indeed, three-quarters of the hundreds of key actors in the policy-making process were nongovernmental collectivities.

  Academic text (1993)

• Grassroots pressures from industrially advanced regions and from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) forced policy directives on energy use.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

N

nongovernment

vsnongovernmental

1 4.2

Not related to or run by the government

means specifically not controlled owned or run by the government

Antonyms

G

governmental

88 3.6

Relating to public bodies that run a country or city

Compounds

N

nongovernmental organization

• US

5 3.7

A group that works without government to help people in need

How Independent

autonomous

51 6.3

independent

360 2.8

nongovernmental

7 3.9

semigovernmental

6.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology