POLITICAL MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does political movement mean? 

• POLITICAL MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun POLITICAL MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a group of people working together to achieve a political goal

  Familiarity information: POLITICAL MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLITICAL MOVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of people working together to achieve a political goal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("political movement" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

Meronyms (members of "political movement"):

cadre; cell (a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political movement"):

Palestine Liberation Organization; PLO (a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority)

Sinn Fein (an Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland; became the political branch of the Irish Republican Army)

Red Guard (a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles)

syndicalism (a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions)

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Instance hyponyms:

al-Asifa; al-Fatah; Fatah (a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups)