nongovernment
adjective
non·gov·ern·ment
ˌnän-ˈgə-vər(n)-mənt 
-və-mənt;
-ˈgə-bᵊm-ənt,
-vᵊm-
: not belonging to or affiliated with the government
nongovernment jobs
a nongovernment organization
Examples of nongovernment in a Sentence
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Turkey launched 1,200 airstrikes in northern Iraq in 2021 alone, a higher rate than any time in the previous six years, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a nongovernment organization.
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Jared Malsin, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
With 381,000 employees hired in the private sector in June, the U.S. eclipsed the prepandemic high of 129,625,000 total private, nongovernment jobs seen in February 2020, with the new total standing at 129,765,000.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 July 2022
The reason: Decisions made in public schools are analyzed by the courts differently than censorship in nongovernment contexts.
—Erica Goldberg, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2022
The company could have partnered earlier with nongovernment organizations to help address vaccine hesitancy.
—Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
Meadows, the committee said, played a central role in those challenges, communicating with GOP lawmakers, activists, Trump allies and campaign officials from the west wing, often using a personal email account and a nongovernment cell phone.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2021
The evidence includes bank transfers, flouted university policies, a chain of emails from nongovernment accounts and procurement votes in the supervisors’ chambers.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
But in neither case was a formal legal opinion ever offered on whether a nongovernment employee could make such claims.
—Alex Leary, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
Over the first eight months of 2021, the Financial Services Committee failed to upload the disclosures of 65 nongovernment witnesses to the House’s document repository out of the 44 committee and subcommittee hearings that were held.
—Edward Graham, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
Jared Malsin, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
With 381,000 employees hired in the private sector in June, the U.S. eclipsed the prepandemic high of 129,625,000 total private, nongovernment jobs seen in February 2020, with the new total standing at 129,765,000.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 July 2022
The reason: Decisions made in public schools are analyzed by the courts differently than censorship in nongovernment contexts.
—Erica Goldberg, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2022
The company could have partnered earlier with nongovernment organizations to help address vaccine hesitancy.
—Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
Meadows, the committee said, played a central role in those challenges, communicating with GOP lawmakers, activists, Trump allies and campaign officials from the west wing, often using a personal email account and a nongovernment cell phone.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2021
The evidence includes bank transfers, flouted university policies, a chain of emails from nongovernment accounts and procurement votes in the supervisors’ chambers.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
But in neither case was a formal legal opinion ever offered on whether a nongovernment employee could make such claims.
—Alex Leary, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
Over the first eight months of 2021, the Financial Services Committee failed to upload the disclosures of 65 nongovernment witnesses to the House’s document repository out of the 44 committee and subcommittee hearings that were held.
—Edward Graham, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
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