MILITANT


Meaning of MILITANT in English

(~s)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

You use ~ to describe people who believe in something very strongly and are active in trying to bring about political or social change, often in extreme ways that other people find unacceptable.

Militant mineworkers in the Ukraine have voted for a one-day stoppage next month.

ADJ

Militant is also a noun.

The ~s might still find some new excuse to call a strike.

N-COUNT: usu pl

militancy

...the rise of trade union militancy.

N-UNCOUNT

~ly

Their army is ~ly nationalist.

ADV: usu ADV adj

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