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antiprison

antiprison adjective: opposing prisons.

Adjective

antiprison (comparative more antiprison, superlative most antiprison)

  1. Opposing prisons.
    • During my own career as an antiprison activist I have seen the population of U.S. prisons increase with such rapidity that many people in black, Latino, and Native American communities now have a far greater chance of going to prison than of getting a decent education. When many young people decide...2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, page 10

Forms of antiprison

comparativemore antiprison
superlativemost antiprison

Origin of antiprison

From anti- + prison.

Questions about antiprison

What does antiprison mean?
Antiprison means opposing prisons.
What part of speech is antiprison?
Antiprison is an adjective.

Words near antiprison in the dictionary

  1. antiprions
  2. antiprism
  3. antiprismatic
  4. antiprismo-
  5. antiprisms
  6. antiprison
  7. antiprivacy
  8. antiprivatization
  9. antiprocedural
  10. antiprocreation
  11. antiprocreative

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