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class="defs"><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> not partisan</span><span class="sense_content"> ; <em>especially</em></span> <span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> free from party affiliation, bias, or designation <span class="vi"><<em>nonpartisan</em> ballot></span> <span class="vi"><a <em>nonpartisan</em> board></span></span></div> <div class="run_on"> — <span class="variant">non·par·ti·san·ship</span> <a href="/web/20090424094902/http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nonpar04.wav=nonpartisanship' " onclick=" popWin('/cgi-bin/audio.pl?nonpar04.wav=nonpartisanship'); return false; " class="audio"><img src="/web/20090424094902im_/http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.gif" alt=" Listen to the pronunciation of nonpartisanship" title=" Listen to the pronunciation of nonpartisanship"/></a> <span class="pronchars"> \-<span class="unicode">ˌ</span>ship\ </span> <em>noun</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="result_ad">  <script 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