Extragovernmental
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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