nongovernmental organization

Questions about nongovernmental organization

What does nongovernmental organization mean?

nongovernmental organization means "an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government".

What is another word for nongovernmental organization?

Close synonyms include NGO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nongovernmental organization a common word?

nongovernmental organization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.