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grass-roots

grass-roots is the alternative spelling of grassroots.

Meaning of grassroots

Adjective

grassroots (comparative more grassroots, superlative most grassroots)

  1. Of, or relating to people or society at the local level, particularly in politics, social movements, etc.; of the grass roots.
    • If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.2020 November 18, Brian Lowry, “‘Soros’ looks at the life and activism of the right’s favorite bogeyman”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2026

Questions about grass-roots

What is grass-roots the alternative spelling of?
Grass-roots is the alternative spelling of grassroots.

Words near grass-roots in the dictionary

  1. grass-greens
  2. grass-grown
  3. grass-pea
  4. grass-peas
  5. grass-rooted
  6. grass-roots
  7. grass-skipper
  8. grass-skippers
  9. grass-tops
  10. grass-widowed
  11. grass-yellow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grass-roots (page history and authors); grassroots (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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