UPROAR


Meaning of UPROAR in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

public

The cutbacks were almost immediately rescinded after a public uproar .

■ VERB

cause

It must have caused an uproar !

Parliament had been scheduled today to review the new levy, which caused an uproar .

The sudden and dramatic success of the London shop might have caused uproar and panic among the thirty-strong team in Carno.

And that will cause uproar tonight when the general committee gather to ratify the decision.

When paper currency was introduced in the nineteenth century, it caused uproar , with people declaring it immoral.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The court's decision set off an uproar among religious activists.

There was an immediate uproar when the company talked about cutting holiday time.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And now the uproar that he had finally raised was dying away, and a gratifying silence was descending once again.

But apparently the uproar from fans wanting to see Lewis make history may have Hunt reconsidering.

He was surprised, assuming that all the uproar at the castle must have been heard.

More pilots ran out of the back room, aroused by the uproar , and joined in the fist-fight.

The cutbacks were almost immediately rescinded after a public uproar .

The political uproar that follows is wholly predictable.

When this leaked to the press, it generated an uproar .

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