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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bipartisan
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ The Senate move was part of a broader bipartisan agreement on how the politically sensitive investigation will proceed.
▪ The Senate is already close to a bipartisan agreement on those programs, according to Sen.
bill
▪ The vote was 306-108, with the majority Republicans solidly supporting the bipartisan bill and Democrats split.
▪ One piece of legislation that has gained momentum amid the concern about workers is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Sen.
▪ Christopher Shays of Connecticut, Republican sponsor of the leading bipartisan bill.
campaign
▪ This year, for example, Dole was instrumental in delaying consideration of a bipartisan campaign finance bill.
commission
▪ The law itself, according to the bipartisan commission, is a source of continuing illegal migration.
▪ Clinton wants a bipartisan commission to resolve the problem.
▪ But the greatest problem, as revealed by a recent report from a bipartisan commission, is on the nation's farms.
▪ Suggested it would take a bipartisan commission to find answers for long-term imbalances in Social Security and Medicare.
▪ So far, according to a bipartisan commission monitoring the law, only 12 million workers have taken advantage of the provisions.
▪ A bipartisan commission had worked for more than a year to produce the blueprint for the legislation that the House passed.
▪ Y., who is chairman of the bipartisan commission.
▪ He also proposes a bipartisan commission to examine the issue as the best politically possible way to change the system.
cooperation
▪ Clinton said he offered the deal as a sign of bipartisan cooperation.
▪ Another issue before Congress that will require bipartisan cooperation is campaign finance reform.
group
▪ The House has not yet considered the farm bill where a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep.
▪ At the same time, the bipartisan groups from the House and Senate, led by Sen.
panel
▪ Two years ago, an independent bipartisan panel on tax reform chaired by Sen.
▪ Afterward, the two sides may create a bipartisan panel to seek a longer term solution.
support
▪ If we can have such an assurance we shall be able, for once, to say that the Bill has bipartisan support.
▪ Jim Chapman, D-Texas, is expected to pass the House on Friday with bipartisan support.
▪ Almost all those provisions command bipartisan support.
▪ It passed the Legislature with strong bipartisan support.
▪ There is growing bipartisan support for lifting them altogether.
▪ But in 1989, when the minimum wage was last raised, Dole joined the strong bipartisan support for the action.
▪ The bill is the first campaign reform measure in 25 years with bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bipartisan agreement to balance the federal budget
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost all those provisions command bipartisan support.
▪ Clinton said he offered the deal as a sign of bipartisan cooperation.
▪ In Congress there have been bipartisan allegations of a Pentagon cover-up.
▪ It also has received bipartisan congressional support.
▪ Kentucky last had a bipartisan ruling coalition in 1920.
▪ One piece of legislation that has gained momentum amid the concern about workers is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Sen.
▪ Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
▪ Y., who is chairman of the bipartisan commission.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bipartisan

also bi-partisan, 1894, from bi- + partisan.

Wiktionary
bipartisan

a. relating to, or supported by two groups, especially by two political party

WordNet
bipartisan

adj. supported by both sides; "a two-way treaty" [syn: bipartizan, two-party, two-way]

Usage examples of "bipartisan".

As we headed into December, a little sanity crept back into political life when the House and the Senate passed the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT, with large bipartisan majorities.

Another GOP proposal that met stiff resistance was its move to eliminate the Department of Education, which, like the school lunch program, had always enjoyed strong bipartisan support.

Since it would promote free enterprise, I hoped to get strong bipartisan support and was encouraged by the fact that Speaker Hastert seemed especially interested in the effort.

I asked the Republicans to work with the White House and the Democrats in the same spirit that had produced the bipartisan welfare reform bill in 1996 and the Balanced Budget Act in 1997.

On September 24, Hillary and I hosted an event in the Old Executive Office Building to celebrate the success of bipartisan efforts to increase the adoption of children out of the foster-care system.

I doubted that he would actually indict me, given the fact that a bipartisan panel of prosecutors had testified at the impeachment proceedings that no responsible prosecutor would do so.

Bush illustrates the widespread and bipartisan nature of this belief in U.

Better to hear it from a Republican-chaired, bipartisan, unanimous report based on thousands of hours of rigorous investigation.

All in all, it was the kind of bipartisan night that brought back memories of the kinder, gentler days of the Ford administration.

The year after that, a surprisingly responsible bipartisan commission chaired by a younger, wiser Alan Greenspan recommended a body of major reforms that preserved the basic structure of the program and ensured its long-term viability.

He shot up in the polls, and bipartisan support for his action and the resolution took the issue of Vietnam out of the campaign, except as a negative for Goldwater.

Johnson officials who would thereby be providing Nixon with protective, bipartisan cover.

So whenever a consensus had been reached as to what must be done next, the men brought Norman Grant into their confidence and depended increasingly upon him for bipartisan support.

He was also generally effective in gaining bipartisan support for his legislative undertakings.

The Labour Party lost the 1970 general election, but the legislation had been bipartisan and was re-introduced by Reginald Maudling for the Conservatives.