non-partisan

non-partisan
non-partisan (adj.) also nonpartisan, 1872, American English, from NON- (Cf. non-) + PARTISAN (Cf. partisan).
FIRST POLITICIAN: Who's backing this non-partisan candidate?
SECOND POLITICIAN: The non-partisan party.
["Life," Sept. 29, 1927]
As a noun from 1888.

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