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antireservation

antireservation adjective: opposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.

Adjective

antireservation (not comparable)

  1. Opposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.
    • From April onwards, however, the antireservation agitation and communal riots took place simultaneously. During that month, the antireservation agitation spread to Saraspur and Gomtipur in the industrial belt; [...]2016, Megha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict, →ISBN
  2. Opposing the confinement of Native Americans to Indian reservations.
    • Smohalla attracted groups of defiant, antireservation Indians to his community near Priest Rapids.1998, Barry Pritzker, Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples, →ISBN, page 354

Origin of antireservation

From anti- + reservation.

Questions about antireservation

What does antireservation mean?
Antireservation means opposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.
What part of speech is antireservation?
Antireservation is an adjective.

Words near antireservation in the dictionary

  1. antirepublican
  2. antirepublicans
  3. antirequisite
  4. antirequisites
  5. antiresearch
  6. antireservation
  7. antireservationist
  8. antireservationists
  9. antiresistance
  10. antiresistant
  11. antiresistants

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