nongovernmental

noun

1. the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
2. the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government; episcopal government.
3. the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration.
4. a branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole: a dam built by the government.
5. (in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom)
   1. the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The prime minister has formed a new government.
   2. the parliament along with the cabinet: The government has fallen.
6. direction; control; management; rule: the government of one’s conduct.
7. a district governed; province.
8. political science.
9. Grammar. the extablished usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form: the government of the verb by its subject.

adjective

1. not related to government affairs or procedures

noun

1. the exercise of political authority over the actions, affairs, etc, of a political unit, people, etc, as well as the performance of certain functions for this unit or body; the action of governing; political rule and administration
2. the system or form by which a community, etc, is ruledtyrannical government
3. 1. the executive policy-making body of a political unit, community, etc; ministry or administrationyesterday we got a new government
   2. (capital when of a specific country)the British Government
4. 1. the state and its administrationblame it on the government
   2. (as modifier)a government agency
5. regulation; direction
6. grammar the determination of the form of one word by another word

n.late 14c., “act of governing or ruling;” 1550s, “system by which a thing is governed” (especially a state), from Old French governement (Modern French gouvernement), from governer (see govern). Replaced Middle English governance. Meaning “governing power” in a given place is from 1702.