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Princeton's WordNet
grassrootsadjective
fundamental
"the grassroots factor in making the decision"
grassrootsadjective
of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
"a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament"
Wiktionary
grassrootsadjective
Of, or relating to people or society at the local level; of the grass roots
ChatGPT
grassroots
Grassroots refers to the ordinary people in a society or organization, especially as contrasted with the leaders or the elite. It also refers to activities and movements that originate among these ordinary people, often at a local level, and are driven by community interests, aiming for social, political, or economic change. These activities or movements are often characterized by spontaneous organization and lack of formal structure.
Wikidata
Grassroots
A grassroots movement is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures. Grassroots movements are often at the local level, as many volunteers in the community give their time to support the local party, which can lead to helping the national party. For instance, a grassroots movement can lead to significant voter registration for a political party, which in turn helps the state and national parties.
Editors Contribution
grassroots
The citizens of a country involved in politics that engage with a socialist political party or independent socialist politician through their membership and support and focus on cocreating in the order of priority of optimum health, human rights, right to life, civil rights, democracy, stability, ethical, fair, just, moral, equal and shared prosperity for all, socialism, socialist unity government, socialist policies, solidarity, cohesion, animal rights, right to life, right to housing, the fasttrack building of public housing on public land using nationalized construction organizations and public service construction employees, maintenance of current public housing, right to free education, right to parent, right to free preschool education, right to a standard of living, cocreation of equal and identical pay for all and a universal living income, right to internet access, economic stability, financial stability, equal rights, equal opportunities, employment rights, childrens rights, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, united partnership, multi-party working, community empowerment systems, equal distribution of income, wealth, fairness and justness across society, the country, europe and the world and contribute to the cocreation of global and national peace agreements, peace treaties, the universes truth and a fair, just and transparent system of checks and balances
Grassroots politics is the empowerment of people and the knowing that people's voices are heard and communicated through the structures of a political party or independent politician
Submitted by MaryC on April 10, 2020
grassroots
The citizens of a country involved in politics.
The people power at the grassroots of society are a collective voice.
Submitted by MaryC on September 22, 2020
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of grassroots in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of grassroots in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of grassroots in a Sentence
Ive been involved with grassroots activists for a little over a decade, ive never seen anything like this on the conservative side of the ledger, where youve got this entity working with governmental bodies, dumping huge networks of information into one database. Theyre asking for contact information, theyre asking for who else lives in the houseits troubling that this information is being stored in a Democrat-aligned database.
It is terrific that Laramie did this. There was a huge groundswell. It was local democracy, the vote on Wednesday was the final step on a really thorough grassroots effort.
President Begaye wants a little more time to gather the input of grassroots organizations, ranchers and others to determine how best to go forward on implementing the agreement.
Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story.
It speaks volumes about the power of the grassroots.
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- القاعدةArabic
- grassrootsCzech
- græsrødderDanish
- GraswurzelnGerman
- herbejojEsperanto
- basesSpanish
- ruohonjuuritasonFinnish
- sur le terrain, localFrench
- जमीनी स्तर परHindi
- popolareItalian
- מרגליםHebrew
- ಜನಸಾಮಾನ್ಯKannada
- herba-radicesLatin
- grassrootsDutch
- gressrøtterNorwegian
- basesPortuguese
- обычный, местный, рядовой, обыкновенный, низовойRussian
- gräsrotternaSwedish
- அடிமட்டTamil
- kTurkish
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