English > political movement: 1 sense > noun 1, group| Meaning | A group of people working together to achieve a political goal. |
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| Instances | al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa | A Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state |
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| Members | cell, cadre | A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger / larger political movement |
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| Narrower | Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO | A political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine |
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| Red Guard | A radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles |
| Sinn Fein | An Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland |
| syndicalism | A radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions |
| terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO | A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
| Broader | movement, social movement, front | A group of people with a common ideology / ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals |
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| Spanish | movimiento político |
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| Catalan | moviment polític |
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