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counterestablishment

counterestablishment noun: an establishment that opposes another establishment.

Noun

counterestablishment (plural counterestablishments)

  1. An establishment that opposes another establishment.
    • Founded in 1953 to seed a new conservative generation (and originally called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists), this pioneer of what would become a sprawling conservative counterestablishment boasted as its first president a young man named William F. Buckley Jr., who would go on to...2007 October 7, Jonathan Rauch, “Crisis on the Right”, in New York Times

Forms of counterestablishment

pluralcounterestablishments

Origin of counterestablishment

From counter- + establishment.

Questions about counterestablishment

What does counterestablishment mean?
Counterestablishment means an establishment that opposes another establishment.
What part of speech is counterestablishment?
Counterestablishment is a noun.
What is the plural of counterestablishment?
The plural of counterestablishment is counterestablishments.

Words near counterestablishment in the dictionary

  1. counterentry
  2. counterermine
  3. counterespionage
  4. counteressay
  5. counteressays
  6. counterestablishment
  7. counterestablishments
  8. counterestimate
  9. counterestimates
  10. counterevent
  11. counterevents

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