HyperDic: nonviolent_resistance

English > 1 sense of the expression nonviolent resistance:
NOUNactnonviolent resistance, passive resistance, nonviolencepeaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate
English > nonviolent resistance: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaningpeaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing / refusing to cooperate.
Synonymspassive resistance, nonviolence
NarrowerSatyagrahaThe form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms
hunger strikeA voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
Broaderdirect actionA protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
Spanishresistencia pasiva
Catalanno-violència, resistència no-violenta, resistència passiva

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