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ag-gag

ag-gag adjective: that prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.

Adjective

ag-gag (not comparable)

  1. That prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
    • "Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."2015, Gregg Barak, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful

Noun

ag-gag (plural ag-gags)

  1. A law that prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
    • "However, the proliferation of ag-gag also has other insidious ramifications at the local, national, and global scales."2015, H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha, The Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food Trade

Forms of ag-gag

pluralag-gags

Questions about ag-gag

What does ag-gag mean?
Ag-gag means that prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
What part of speech is ag-gag?
Ag-gag can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ag-gag in the dictionary

  1. ag assault
  2. ag man
  3. ag pipe
  4. ag'in
  5. ag-
  6. ag-gag
  7. ag-gags
  8. Ag.
  9. aga
  10. AGA cooker
  11. AGA cookers

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