NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nongovernmental organization mean? 

• NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION (noun)
  The noun NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION has 1 sense:

1. an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government

  Familiarity information: NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

NGO; nongovernmental organization

Hypernyms ("nongovernmental organization" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nongovernmental organization"):

AA; Alcoholics Anonymous (an international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism)

Red Cross (an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime)

Salvation Army (a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless)

Umma Tameer-e-Nau; UTN (a nongovernmental organization of Pakistani scientists that has been a supporter of terrorism; has provided information about chemical and biological and nuclear warfare to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and the Taliban)

National Trust; NT (an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription)

denomination (a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith)

Congress of Racial Equality; CORE (an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality)

citizens committee; committee (a self-constituted organization to promote something)

foreign mission; mission; missionary post; missionary station (an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work)

Instance hyponyms:

Greenpeace (an international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species)

Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad; MDI (a Sunni organization formed in 1989 and based in Pakistan; opposes missionary groups from the United States; has Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as its armed wing)