opposition
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the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree withtypes:grève patronalea management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to termsréactiondoing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like
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the act of hostile groups opposing each othertype of:résistancegroup action in opposition to those in power
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a direction opposite to anothertype of:directionthe spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves
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group action in opposition to those in powersynonyms: résistancetypes:défia defiant actaction directea protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demandstype of:action de groupeaction taken by a group of people
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the relation between opposed entities
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