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antiriot

antiriot adjective: serving to counteract rioting.

Adjective

antiriot (not comparable)

  1. Serving to counteract rioting.
    • Thus, the administration was not in favor of an antiriot bill before Congress that was designed to curb militant blacks suspected of encouraging riots.1990, Brigitte Lebens Nacos, The Press, Presidents, and Crises
    • ...who told him that things were spiraling out of control in Edgehill and that the police were conducting antiriot maneuvers there.2001, Neil Websdale, Policing the poor

Forms of antiriot

alternative formanti-riot

Origin of antiriot

From anti- + riot.

Questions about antiriot

What does antiriot mean?
Antiriot means serving to counteract rioting.
What part of speech is antiriot?
Antiriot is an adjective.

Words near antiriot in the dictionary

  1. antirightist
  2. antirightists
  3. antirights
  4. Antirio
  5. Antirion
  6. antiriot
  7. antiripening
  8. antirise
  9. antirishon
  10. antirishons
  11. antiritual

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