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agit-prop

agit-prop is the alternative form of agitprop.

Meaning of agitprop

Noun

agitprop (countable and uncountable, plural agitprops)

  1. (also, attributive, uncountable) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
    • Russian Twitter and Facebook bots trolled both the left and the right with agitprop — in what appears to have been a general effort to deepen divisions and sow political chaos in America, not to favor one party or candidate over the other.2017 November 19, Paul Sperry, “Here are some of the biggest myths of the Russian-collusion story”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2024
  2. (countable) An instance of such propaganda.
  3. (countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.

See all 4 meanings of agitprop

Forms of agit-prop

Noun
pluralagit-props
Verb
third-person singular presentagit-props
present participleagit-propping
past participleagit-propped
pastagit-propped

Questions about agit-prop

What is agit-prop the alternative form of?
Agit-prop is the alternative form of agitprop.

Words near agit-prop in the dictionary

  1. agistments
  2. agistor
  3. agistors
  4. agists
  5. agit prop
  6. agit-prop
  7. agit-propped
  8. agit-propping
  9. agit-props
  10. agita
  11. agitable

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