extragovernmental
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From extra- (“outside of, beyond”) + governmental.
Adjective[edit]
extragovernmental (comparative more extragovernmental, superlative most extragovernmental)
- Existing apart from or beyond the government.
- 2016 July 28, Emily St. James, “Jason Bourne review: Matt Damon is back in a greatest hits cover album of the other 3 films”, in Vox[1], archived from the original on 2023-02-05:
- 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.
- 2018 September 2, Benji Wilson, “Jodie Comer on Killing Eve — the new TV series from Fleabag writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge”, in The Times[2], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2021:
- Villanelle's kills are being ordered by the sort of shady extragovernmental organisation that might have seemed fanciful in a time before we'd heard of polonium. Yet "the 12", as they are known, are not purely fictional.
- 2020 July 20, Michelle Goldberg, “Trump’s Occupation of American Cities Has Begun”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-24:
- It is true that C.B.P. is not an extragovernmental militia, and so might not fit precisely into Snyder's "On Tyranny" schema. But when I spoke to Snyder on Monday, he suggested the distinction isn't that significant.
- 2023 March 19, Rana Foroohar, “We need to create guardrails for AI”, in Financial Times[4], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 March 2023:
- The private Texas town being built by Elon Musk to house his SpaceX, Tesla, and Boring Company employees is just the latest iteration of the Silicon Valley libertarian fantasy in which the rich take refuge in private compounds in New Zealand, or move their wealth and businesses into extragovernmental jurisdictions and "special economic zones".
References[edit]
- “extra-governmental, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “extragovernmental”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 454, column 2.
