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bipartisan

bipartisan

adjective bee-par-TEE-zan Rare

Origin: English/French loanword

Usage Note

Bipartisan is an invariable English loanword used in Italian political journalism to describe cross-party agreement. It does not inflect for gender or number: un accordo bipartisan, misure bipartisan. The native Italian near-equivalent is trasversale (cross-cutting), which is more colloquial.

Examples

"L'accordo bipartisan ha sorpreso tutti."

Natural Translation

The bipartisan agreement surprised everyone.

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