| 单词 | passive resistance |
| 释义 | passive resistanceSEE SYNONYMS FOR passive resistance ON THESAURUS.COM nounopposition to a government or to specific governmental laws by the use of noncooperation and other nonviolent methods, as economic boycotts and protest marches. Compare civil disobedience, noncooperation (def. 2). Origin of passive resistanceFirst recorded in 1880–85 OTHER WORDS FROM passive resistancepas·sive re·sist·er, nounWords nearby passive resistancepassive-matrix, passive movement, passive noun, passive obedience, passive reason, passive resistance, passive restraint, passive safety, passive smoke, passive smoking, passive transfer Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for passive resistancepassive resistance nounresistance to a government, law, etc, made without violence, as by fasting, demonstrating peacefully, or refusing to cooperate Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for passive resistancepassive resistance A technique of demonstrating opposition to a government's activities simply by not cooperating with them. It is particularly associated with Mahatma Gandhi, who opposed violent revolution in his own country's fight for independence. (Compare civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.) The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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