communist
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈkɑːmjʊnɪst/
:
comunista
- He proudly identified himself as a communist during the political debate.
- communists and socialists
- communists in government
- reform communists
Labor unions are run by communists who are trying to make things easier.
- Labor unions are run by communists who are trying to make things easier.
- There are things such as if you're a communist, you can't be a leader of a union.
- When I say why are they poor, they call me a communist and they will kill me.
- You see, because my grandfather's a communist and my stepfather was an ex communist Labour voter.
- So my grandfather and his father fought against the Communists as they were taking control of Albania.
- But these actions show how slippery the communists are.
- She really thinks talks acts like a communist.
- But you know, the hero then of that of that little episode is a Russian communist called Boris Yeltsin.
- He says that a pure communist is a very highly educated person.
- Siqueros, Ortega, Diego Carlo, all Communists, all Trotsky, friends of that.
- She's a woman and black and gay and a communist.
Examples
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Pamela, are you a communist?
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Truman successfully contained the communists in Greece and South Korea, established NATO, and the Marshall Plan.
Academic text (1991) -
And he was a a communist working at at a State University.
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But you... you are a communist, are you not?
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My father was a communist.
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We are all good communists here.
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I'm told that there were communists on the project.
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The truth is, I'm a lot of things, but communist isn't one of them.
Fiction book (2001) -
She's a communist.
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We've had Popes accused of colluding with communists and fascists.
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.5
A political party that wants a society where the state owns businesses and property
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6.3
A short political book by Marx and Engels that explains ideas about workers and society
- Offensive
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9.7
An insulting name for a rebel in a communist group who people say steals or uses violence
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6.4
A system where the government controls what is made, how goods are shared, and their prices
- Offensive
A mocking name for a news channel people use to say it supports the political left
A communist political party that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and caused the deaths of millions
- Archaic
A government in former Yugoslavia where Serbian communist leaders rule
How Communist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Communist comes from the Latin communis 'shared' and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who believes', and it shares the root with community and common. So a communist is a person who believes resources and property should be shared by everyone.