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nongovernmental organization

n. an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government [syn: NGO]

Usage examples of "nongovernmental organization".

However, as the medicines were preclassified as radioactive and the property of a nongovernmental organization, they would forgo VACIS and pass directly to a U.

In the jargon of activism, Global Witness was an NGO, or nongovernmental organization.

But as an illegal and nongovernmental organization, which never takes any direct action itself, I think that we might be able to save a lot of lives.

AEGIS, the Association for the Elevation of Governmental Institutions and Systems, was a private, nongovernmental organization that nonetheless received hefty donations from the Decentralized Democratic Tribunal, the central government of the Terran Sphere, because its activities helped bring retrograde colony-planets back into contact with the civilized worlds, and prepared them for membership in the DDT.