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  • adjective Having no interest in or association with politics.
  • adjective Having no political relevance or importance.

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  • adjective Having no interest or involvement in politics.
  • adjective Having no political relevance or function.
  • adjective Politically neutral, unbiased, non-aligned, free from party politics
  • noun A person with no involvement or no interest in politics.
  • noun An unbiased candidate or voter, free of a party platform.
  • noun A neutral or uncommitted person.

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  • adjective politically neutral

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Examples

  • To suggest that these AP photographs should now be stripped of prior associations and rendered 'apolitical' is itself the most political stance one can take.

    Conscientious: Politics Archives 2009

  • To suggest that these AP photographs should now be stripped of prior associations and rendered 'apolitical' is itself the most political stance one can take.

    Conscientious: Politics: September 2009 Archives 2009

  • Renzo attempts to remain apolitical during the Nazi occupation.

    A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell: Questions 2005

  • This is why the film is "apolitical" - it doesn't take a stance on the Iraq war, which means in practice that (in the absence of critique) it can only be read as ratifying the war (or, at least as ratifying the late-Bush-surge and Obama-post-surge versions of the war, if not the idiotic Cheneyism that got us involved in Iraq in the first place).

    Warren Ellis Warren Ellis 2010

  • It’s vital — both as a matter of perception and reality — that those institutions remain apolitical, separate and detached from partisan wars.

    Making History by Shaming SCOTUS? (TWICE UPDATED) « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • It’s vital — both as a matter of perception and reality — that those institutions remain apolitical, separate and detached from partisan wars.

    January « 2010 « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • Without commenting directly on the fighting in the Strip, Folman told The New York Times that the film, which he has called apolitical but anti-war, "will always be up-to-date because something will always happen again."

    Bradley Burston: Waltz with Bashir, Gaza, and the Post-Moral World 2009

  • Now as for the first, I'd suggest that those churches be called "so-called apolitical" churches and that the head-in-the-sand-spirituality types Tom has described so well be joined by their evil twin "I feel bad we've got to do something, anything, but we're not political and we don't want to think anything through" types.

    Philocrites: Quietistic, idolatrous, or prophetic churches. 2005

  • And Mehlis should not, assuming that he is "professional" and "neutral" and "apolitical"--and he is none of these things--have summoned reporters in Lebanon to reply to Husam Husam.

    Thursday, December 01, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • And Mehlis should not, assuming that he is "professional" and "neutral" and "apolitical"--and he is none of these things--have summoned reporters in Lebanon to reply to Husam Husam.

    Saturday, December 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

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