counterestablishment

English edit

Etymology edit

counter- +‎ establishment

Noun edit

counterestablishment (plural counterestablishments)

  1. An establishment that opposes another establishment.
    • 2007 October 7, Jonathan Rauch, “Crisis on the Right”, in New York Times[1]:
      Founded in 1953 to seed a new conservative generation (and originally called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists), this pioneer of what would become a sprawling conservative counterestablishment boasted as its first president a young man named William F. Buckley Jr., who would go on to bigger things.