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antisocialist en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + socialist.

Meanings

1. Opposed to socialism.
   • One year later, the responses were even more antisocialist: 64 percent, no; 15 percent, yes; and 21 percent, undecided or with no opinion. 2019, Gerard Braunthal, The German Social Democrats Since 1969:
   • Labor could scarcely barter with a party that adopted an antisocialist stance or trade support in return for concessions with a party terming itself antisocialist. 2010, Bruce Hodgins, Don Wright, W.H. Heick, Federalism in Canada and Australia: The Early Years:

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pt antissocialista (one who opposes socialism) · ka ანტისოციალისტი (one who opposes socialism)

antisocialist en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + socialist.

Meanings

1. One who opposes socialism.
   • Hayden's problem here, I think, is an excessive consistency: not being a socialist, or at least not wanting to take his political stand on that principle, he assumes he must, then, be an antisocialist. 1981, The Nation - Volume 232, page 406:

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