nongovernmentally
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Not governmentally; in a manner that does not include governmental control or oversight.
Example Sentences
- "The cities of New York and Pittsburgh, Pa., have also adopted ordinances outlawing discrimination in nongovernmentally assisted housing."
- "Elections with respect to certain nongovernmentally owned rail facilities"
- "The latter category, i.e., nongovernmentally placed children, totaled 1,447 or 15 percent of children housed in the responding facilities."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more nongovernmentally (comparative)
most nongovernmentally (superlative)