Extragovernmental

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Existing apart from or beyond the government.

    "The Bourne series has two great legacies, and one of them — we'll get to the other in a bit — is the way its films tried to engage with the politics of their era, the way they allowed for lots of meaty complications that wrestled with the extragovernmental actions of George W. Bush's national security state."

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"The Bourne series has two great legacies, and one of them — we'll get to the other in a bit — is the way its films tried to engage with the politics of their era, the way they allowed for lots of meaty complications that wrestled with the extragovernmental actions of George W. Bush's national security state."

Etymology

From extra- (“outside of, beyond”) + governmental.

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