Meanings
adjectiveextraparliamentary (not comparable)
- not comparableOutside of a parliament or legislature.
Having lost at the polls they were bent on attempting to capture power: through extraparliamentary means.
1975 July 28, T.N. Kaul, “In Which Reasons for the State of Emergency Are Explained and Defended”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Mar 20231 more example
Unlike Jackson, he has not made himself part of a political movement or exercised extraparliamentary leadership, except in his early newspapering days.
1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁eǵʰsteros
- Proto-Italic*eksteros
- Latinexter
- Latinextrā
- Englishextra-
- Englishparliamentary
- Englishextraparliamentary
From extra- + parliamentary.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish udenomsparlamentarisk
- udenomsparlamentariskextraparliamentary
Dutch extraparlementair
- extraparlementairextraparliamentary
German außerparlamentarisch
- außerparlamentarischextraparliamentary
Greek εξωκοινοβουλευτικός
- εξωκοινοβουλευτικός (exokoinovouleftikós)extraparliamentary
Russian внѐпарла́ментский
- внѐпарла́ментский (vnèparlámentskij)extraparliamentary
Swedish utomparlamentarisk
- utomparlamentariskextraparliamentary
Cite this entry
APA
extraparliamentary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraparliamentary
MLA
“extraparliamentary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraparliamentary. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extraparliamentary,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extraparliamentary.
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