white-anting en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Derived from white-ant.
Meanings
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(Australia, colloquial, uncountable) The action or process of bringing down from within, undermining, sabotage.
Having done all she could for Wollar, Bev had to back off from local involvement; the white-anting had succeeded ... and Wollar would collapse.
2012, Sharyn Munro, Rich Land, Wasteland, Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page:You heard delegates admit that Cameron formed the white-anting organization for the purpose of undermining the A.W.U. ?
1965, The Federal Law Reports, volume 8, page 237:The white-anting of our economic controls by black marketing operations is another serious circumstance.
1943, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 179, page 965:I didn′t complain, just worked harder despite the white-anting that went on under the surface.
2006, Simon Illingworth, Filthy Rat: One Man's Stand Against Police Corruption and Melbourne's Gangland War, page 64: