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PASSIVE RESISTANCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does passive resistance mean?

• PASSIVE RESISTANCE (noun)
The noun PASSIVE RESISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

Familiarity information: PASSIVE RESISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

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• PASSIVE RESISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nonviolence; nonviolent resistance; passive resistance

Hypernyms ("passive resistance" is a kind of...):

direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passive resistance"):

hunger strike (a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest)

Satyagraha (the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms)

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