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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
non-partisan
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the cooperative spirit of a non-partisan summit between the president and 40 attorneys general quickly gave way to election-year politics.
▪ His Mirror Group papers were non-partisan, but they were, equally, not identified with colonial rule.
▪ It finally cashed in its accumulated non-partisan capital in a campaign of truly massive proportions - the Peace Ballot of 1934-35.
▪ Its leaders were determined to maintain an independent and non-partisan identity.
▪ The assumption is that senior civil servants are non-partisan and serve ministers loyally irrespective of politics.
▪ They were relatively non-partisan and pursued policies which would least disturb the social fabric.
▪ Under these circumstances, his intervention could not possibly be perceived as an unambiguously patriotic and non-partisan gesture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
non-partisan

also nonpartisan, 1872, American English, from non- + partisan.\n\nFIRST POLITICIAN: Who's backing this non-partisan candidate?\n
SECOND POLITICIAN: The non-partisan party.\n

["Life," Sept. 29, 1927]

\nAs a noun from 1888.
Wiktionary
non-partisan

a. (alternative spelling of nonpartisan English)

Usage examples of "non-partisan".

The toughest assignment will be to make a non-partisan speech, not in support of a candidate nor an issue, before a non-partisan, non-political group, such as a Kiwanis Club or a ladies' church group.

Tax and regulatory authorities have tangled for decades with his supposedly non-partisan operations.

Their man, naturally, is the Republican nominee: the movement claims to be non-partisan, but it is about as neutral as Nancy Reagan.

It was from Miss Ashton, inviting us to a non-partisan suffrage evening at her studio in her home, to be followed by a dance.

It is a thoroughly non-partisan affair—and she can get them all together.