non-entanglementn.
/ˌnɒnᵻnˈtaŋɡlm(ə)nt/, /ˌnɒnɛnˈtaŋɡlm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈtæŋɡəlm(ə)nt/, /ˌnɑnɛnˈtænɡəlm(ə)nt/ U.S. Politics.
= non-intervention n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > intervention or non-intervention
non-intervention1824
intervention1831
non-entanglement1864
non-interventionism1917
interventionism1923
1864 G. Benis Precedents of Amer. Neutrality 58 The Father of his Country [sc. Washington] was urging upon his countrymen a policy of peace and non-entanglement with foreign complications.
1899 W. James Let. 11 Sept. (1920) II. 101 McKinley..by his purely drifting ‘non-entanglement’ policy converted a splendid opportunity into this present necessity of a conquest of extermination.
1926 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 20 25 Article x was the object of bitter attack in the United States on the ground that its acceptance would mean the end of the policy of non-entanglement in European affairs.
1979 Dædalus Winter 103 The classical dichotomy of American foreign policy—intervention versus nonentanglement.
1996 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. m1 The tradition of non-entanglement supported a practice of presidential aloofness.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1864