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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
apolitical
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally, she appeared in court in 1976, subdued and generally apolitical.
▪ How then did this apolitical, academic subject come to play such an important part in the development of Marxism?
▪ She even adopts uncritically an apolitical, humanist version of psychological democracy.
▪ She would have made the secret love child of Leon Trotsky and Margaret Thatcher look like an uncommitted, apolitical layabout.
▪ The campus had become increasingly apolitical as the fraction of immigrants had grown.
▪ We are apolitical although we have to be aware of the political impact our work can have in some areas.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
apolitical

1947, from a- "not" (see a- (3)) + political.

Wiktionary
apolitical

a. 1 Having no interest or involvement in politics. 2 Having no political relevance or function. 3 Politically neutral, unbiased, non-aligned, free from party politics n. 1 A person with no involvement or no interest in politics. 2 An unbiased candidate or voter, free of a party platform. 3 A neutral or uncommitted person.

WordNet
apolitical

adj. politically neutral [syn: unpolitical]

Usage examples of "apolitical".

Since then my apolitical brother had been taking an unusual interest in current events.

Is it really my apolitical temperament that makes me keep my distance from the intersexual rights movement?

Even Hollywood scriptwriters and apolitical actors were fascinated by the dramatic pace and structure of the hearings.

She would have made the secret love child of Leon Trotsky and Margaret Thatcher look like an uncommitted, apolitical layabout.

Armament Minister, though he had always prided himself on being apolitical, had had, like some other Germans, a late - a too late - awakening.

But even as Americans correctly contrasted the freedom of the American way of life with the coercive constraints of life in the Communist bloc, they often forgot the seductive constraints of their own seemingly apolitical system.

Maybe Costa had some anticlerical thing in his genes, however much he told everyone he was apolitical, the opposite of his father.

Since then my apolitical brother had been taking an unusual interest in current events.

Is it really my apolitical temperament that makes me keep my distance from the intersexual rights movement?

SLN are disinterested and apolitical military figures whose personal and political loyalties are identical.

He moved and worked strictly as an apolitical businessman, which factor made him automatically suspect in the eyes of the more extreme factions of both left-wing and right-wing governments and movements.

It struck me as the kind of program that could only have been dreamt up by scientists, disillusioned security men, and code-geeks, and exactly the sort of naive, apolitical suggestion that got laughed out of enthusiastic young information-techs at their first IWWWW meeting.

On the other hand, since we are apolitical except with respect to the communications business, we have no motive for finding one way or the other.

Apolitical, supremely competent as a military leader—and with none of Esther McQueen's personal ambitiousness.

In Paris, it's true, he had apolitical minded friend, quite aclose friend, a brilliant freelance writer historian, and from this man Alan Savage had learned unsettling things about, for instance, the re cent escalation of American involvement in Vietnam the number of military advisers has risen from 2,000 to 15,000 in two years!