grassroots
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈɡræsˌruts/
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de base
- It was a grassroots movement, fueled by the power of the Internet and the cult of personality.
- a grassroots movement
- a grassroots organization
- grassroots support
We love seeing community support for grassroots tool creators like this.
- We love seeing community support for grassroots tool creators like this.
- And I think a lot of education and grassroots organization are needed.
- It doesn't just mean a grassroots petition in your local school district.
- It will really take grassroots effort.
- And so it really was a grassroots David and Goliath story.
- And so there's an inevitable demand happening, a grassroots swell, as you said, from the farmers.
- And so I look at it that way, like this is a real grassroots effort that we do with Flint Beat.
- It was it was meant to be grassroots people in Mississippi coming together to liberate themselves.
- Despite all of the grassroots sentiments, it didn't result in anything.
Examples
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MAGA is truly a grassroots organization.
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McAleer: it was a big win for this grassroots organization.
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Now we can all work together and and create a global grassroots network.
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It's sort of what every television show would dream of having this, this bottom up grassroots fan culture.
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It's very organic kind of grassroots community building, right?
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And I think we're starting to see the sort of grassroots momentum building in communities.
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Like many grassroots organizations that are founded and led by black women.
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Third, local election systems, or grassroots democracy, can be improved.
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These things don't happen without real grassroots support.
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The grassroots campaign mobilized the community to support local initiatives.
Synonyms
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3.3
Ordinary people in a community who support or begin change at the local level
Antonyms
How Grassroots
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grassroots comes from a simple image: grass and its roots at ground level, the lowest part of the land. So a grassroots movement is one that starts 'from the ground up' with ordinary people, not from leaders or big organizations.