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单词 grassroots
释义
grassroots
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adj

Something grassroots is at the most basic level of something, down there in the dirt with the roots of an idea or activity. If you’re looking to make a change from the ground up, start at the grassroots.
If you want a gorgeous yard, don’t fluff the blades of grass, get down to work on the roots and soil. The grassroots is the most fundamental, basic level of well, grass, but also ideas or political movements. Freedom is a grassroots value of America. Love is a grassroots part of marriage. Reading and writing are grassroots elements of education. Grassroots is where things begin and shoot out from.
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grassroots
USAGE EXAMPLES
Organisers say the US election proved a “catalyst for a grassroots movement of women to assert the positive values that the politics of fear denies”.
The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016)
But Lenchner said progressives should be wary of relying solely on Sanders to lead a grassroots movement.
The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016)
She arrived in the north and signed up as a volunteer for Help Refugees, Europe’s largest grassroots distributor of aid.
The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016)
1adj of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament
Syn
common
having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
2adj fundamental
the grassroots factor in making the decision
Syn
basic
pertaining to or constituting a base or basis
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