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ecotage

/ˈiːkəˌtɑːʒ/

ecotage noun: the commission of usually illegal acts of sabotage motivated by environmentalism.

Noun

ecotage (uncountable)

  1. The commission of usually illegal acts of sabotage motivated by environmentalism.
    • Pro-conservation, pro-guns and extremely pro-booze, anti-mining, anti-tourism and extremely anti-dams, Hayduke appoints himself protector of the remaining desert regions of the American southwest, and becomes a pioneer in the art of "eco-tage", also known as "monkey wrenching" – using the tools of...2009 September 25, Robert Macfarlane, “Robert Macfarlane on The Monkey Wrench Gang”, in The Guardian
    • As Abbey notes, in denouncing terrorism but defending ecotage, ‘sabotage is violence against inanimate objects: machinery and property. Terrorism is violence against human beings. […]’ (Dowie 1996, p. 210).2013, Elizabeth Bomberg, David Schlosberg, editors, Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Conceptions of Activism, Routledge, →ISBN

Synonyms of ecotage

Origin of ecotage

Blend of ecological + sabotage.

Words formed from ecotage

Questions about ecotage

What does ecotage mean?
Ecotage means the commission of usually illegal acts of sabotage motivated by environmentalism.
What part of speech is ecotage?
Ecotage is a noun.
How do you pronounce ecotage?
Ecotage is pronounced /ˈiːkəˌtɑːʒ/.

Words near ecotage in the dictionary

  1. ecosystematist
  2. ecosystematists
  3. ecosystemic
  4. ecosystemically
  5. ecosystems
  6. ecotage
  7. ecotarian
  8. ecotarians
  9. ecotax
  10. ecotaxation
  11. ecotaxes

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