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entryism

entryism noun: a political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate.

Noun

entryism (uncountable)

  1. A political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate.
    • Conservative MPs are warning of a risk of entryism in the party as the pro-Brexit group Leave.EU encourages its supporters to become members in order to back Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg in a future leadership contest.2018 August 19, Heather Stewart, “Brexit: Tory MPs warn of entryism threat from Leave.EU supporters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2020

entryism meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

entryism in Tamil

மறைமுக அதிகார நுழைவு

entryism in Indonesian

Translations
entriisme

Origin of entryism

Previously spelt entrism, borrowed from French entrisme but reconstructed as entry + -ism.

Questions about entryism

What does entryism mean?
Entryism means a political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate.
What is entryism in Tamil?
Entryism in Tamil is மறைமுக அதிகார நுழைவு. See Entryism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is entryism?
Entryism is a noun.

Words near entryism in the dictionary

  1. entry wound
  2. entry wounds
  3. entry-level
  4. entry-phone
  5. entry-phones
  6. entryism
  7. entryist
  8. entryists
  9. entryless
  10. entryng
  11. entrynge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: entryism (page history and authors); entryism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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