entryism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder. Latin *interus Latin intrā Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin intrō Old French entrer Middle French entrer French entrer Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)bor. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French entrismebor. English entrism English entryinflu. English entryism Previously spelt entrism, borrowed from French entrisme but reconstructed as entry + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate.
Conservative MPs are warning of a risk of entryism in the party as the pro-Brexit group Leave.EU encourages its supporters to become members in order to back Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg in a future leadership contest.
2018 August 19, Heather Stewart, “Brexit: Tory MPs warn of entryism threat from Leave.EU supporters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2020:
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Translations (4)
de Entrismus (Translations) · fr entrisme (Translations) · id entriisme (Translations) · cmn 打入主義 /打入主义 (Translations)