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Definition of populist in English English dictionary
- A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular
- A person who advocates populism
- A person who advocates democratic principles
- Of or pertaining to populism
- Put forward just because it would be popular
- Democratic
- an advocate of democratic principles
- {i} supporter of Populism, supporter of grass-roots political movements
- n A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas "
- If you describe a politician or an artist as populist, you mean that they claim to care about the interests and opinions of ordinary people rather than those of a small group. Jose Sarney, the current populist president elitist A populist is someone who expresses populist views. elitist. relating to or representing ordinary people, rather than rich or very highly educated people
- In Polish political vocabulary this word has a negative meaning It implies the use of crowds, popular emotions, and mass activities which violate the law
- A member of the People's party
- Populist Movement
- Coalition of U.S. agrarian reformers in the Midwest and South in the 1890s. The movement developed from farmers' alliances formed in the 1880s in reaction to falling crop prices and poor credit facilities. The leaders organized the Populist, or People's, Party (1892), which advocated a variety of measures to help farmers. They also demanded an increase in the circulating currency (to be achieved by the unlimited coinage of silver), a graduated income tax, government ownership of the railroads, a tariff for revenue only, and the direct election of U.S. senators. The party's presidential candidate in 1892, James B. Weaver (1833-1912), received more than one million votes. Many state and local Populist candidates were elected in the Midwest. In 1896 the Populists joined with the Democratic Party to support the Free Silver Movement and the unsuccessful presidential candidacy of William Jennings Bryan. The movement declined thereafter, though some of its causes were later embraced by the Progressive Party
- Populist Party
- A U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax. Also called People's Party
- populism
- the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
- populism
- A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this
- populism
- The political doctrines advocated by the People's party
- populism
- {i} movement to advance the interests of the common people
- populism
- Populism refers to political activities or ideas that claim to promote the interests and opinions of ordinary people. a wave of populism. Political program or movement that champions the common person, usually by favourable contrast with an elite. Populism usually combines elements of the left and right, opposing large business and financial interests but also frequently being hostile to established socialist and labour parties. In the U.S. the term was applied to the program of the Populist movement of the 1890s
- populistic
- {s} intended to advance the interests of the common people
- populists
- plural of populist
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/ˈpäpyələst/ /ˈpɑːpjələst/
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