postpartisan

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adjective

Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivepostpartisan (comparative more postpartisan, superlative most postpartisan)

comparative more postpartisan · superlative most postpartisan · alternative post-partisan

  1. USgovernmentMoving past and beyond conventional partisan divides

    Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi[…].

    1995 September 18, Michael Handy, “Ich Bin Ein Magazine Editor”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2010
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    If nurtured and used creatively, they can be the lever by which Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition.

    2009 February 6, David Brooks, “The Gang System”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishpartisan
  8. Englishpostpartisan

From post- + partisan.

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APA

postpartisan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpartisan

MLA

“postpartisan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpartisan. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postpartisan,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpartisan.

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