Counterestablishment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Counterestablishment is a noun meaning An establishment that opposes another establishment.
Meaning
An establishment that opposes another establishment.
Example Sentences
Founded in 1953 to seed a new conservative generation (and originally called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists), this pioneer of what would become a sprawling conservative counterestablishment boasted as its first president a young man named William F. Buckley Jr., who would go on to bigger things.
Word Forms
- counterestablishments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counterinstitution, antiestablishmentism, establishmentism, establishmentarian, counterregime, establishmentarianism.
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