postpartisan

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ partisan

Adjective[edit]

postpartisan (comparative more postpartisan, superlative most postpartisan)

  1. (US politics) Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides
    • 1995 September 18, Michael Handy, “Ich Bin Ein Magazine Editor”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 30 October 2010:
      Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi [] .
    • 2009 February 6, David Brooks, “The Gang System”, in New York Times[2]:
      If nurtured and used creatively, they can be the lever by which Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition.