PoliticsAugust 28, 2026

multipartisan

MULL-tee-PAR-tih-zun

Definition

Involving or supported by members of several different political parties.

Etymology

Derived from the Latin prefix 'multi-', meaning 'many,' and the English word 'partisan,' which comes from the Italian 'partigiano' (a member of a party or faction). It first gained common usage in the 20th century to describe cooperation across political lines.

In the news

The article notes that a 'multipartisan' consensus has emerged in Canada, uniting different political factions in the belief that the country needs to transition away from its forty-year model of deep economic integration with the United States.

Trump’s Art of the Bad Deal Comes to Canada

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