postpartisan

postpartisan

English

Alternative forms

  • post-partisan

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English partisan
English postpartisan

    From post- + partisan.

    Adjective

    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.

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