SEPARATIST


Meaning of SEPARATIST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

basque

The bomb is thought to have been planted by the Basque separatist group Eta.

■ NOUN

group

The bomb is thought to have been planted by the Basque separatist group Eta.

A Kashmiri separatist group claimed responsibility for the blast.

movement

The separatist movement began in the mid-1970s after the province was denied additional natural gas revenue.

The air attack occurred in August 1988 during a campaign against the Kurdish separatist movement .

According to the International Herald Tribune of June 11 the tribal separatist movement there had killed an estimated 2,000 people since 1975.

However, let us not - or not yet - infer mass nationalism from separatist movements in all cases.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A Kashmiri separatist group claimed responsibility for the blast.

But under what circumstances does it become politically separatist ?

Groups of women working or socializing together are not automatically separatist .

The separatists had won no seats at the last elections, in 1986.

The arrests brought the number of separatists detained in Jayapura since last week to 61.

The bomb is thought to have been planted by the Basque separatist group Eta.

The rules are simple: whatever your race or class, provided you are a woman, you are a potential separatist .

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