populist
Noun
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Noun
populist (plural populists)
- A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
- 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)
- Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
- 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)
- A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
- A person who advocates democratic principles.
- German: Populist
- Spanish: populista
- French: populiste
- German: Populist, Populistin
- Russian: попули́ст
- Russian: наро́дник
populist
- Democratic.
- (of a political policy) Put forward just because it would be popular.
- Of or pertaining to populism.
- Russian: наро́днический
- French: populiste
- German: populistisch
- Russian: попули́стский
- German: populistisch
- Russian: попули́стский
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