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antigovernment

antigovernment adjective: opposed to a government currently in power.

Adjective

antigovernment (comparative more antigovernment, superlative most antigovernment)

  1. Opposed to a government currently in power.
    • Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.
    • And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.2013 April 1, Timothy Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (Book collections on Project MUSE), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75
    Synonyms:
    opposition
  2. Opposed to government in general.
    • They have an antigovernment philosophy.
    • This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.2021 April 9, “Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community”, in Office of the Director of National Intelligence, page 24

Noun

antigovernment (plural antigovernments)

  1. A government set up to oppose another government.
    • Insurrection and subversion are primarily the weapons of indigenous antigovernments. Foreign governments, of course, may encourage antigovernments.2017, Richard K. Betts, Conflict After the Cold War

antigovernment meaning in Indonesian

antigovernment in Indonesian

opposed to a government currently in power
antipemerintah
opposed to a government in general
antipemerintah

Synonyms of antigovernment

Antonyms

Forms of antigovernment

Adjective
comparativemore antigovernment
superlativemost antigovernment
alternative formanti-government
Noun
pluralantigovernments

Origin of antigovernment

From anti- + government.

Questions about antigovernment

What does antigovernment mean?
Antigovernment means opposed to a government currently in power.
What is antigovernment in Indonesian?
Antigovernment in Indonesian is antipemerintah. See Antigovernment meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is antigovernment?
Antigovernment can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antigovernment in the dictionary

  1. antigorites
  2. antigospel
  3. antigouging
  4. antigout
  5. antigov
  6. antigovernment
  7. antigovernmental
  8. antigovernments
  9. antigoyism
  10. antigraffiti
  11. antigraft

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