antiparty

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ party

Adjective

antiparty (comparative more antiparty, superlative most antiparty)

1. (politics) Opposing a particular political party.
   • 2009 January 9, Edward Wong, “Police in China Halt Parents Seeking Investigation Into School Collapses”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     "They said that I had contacted foreign media and called me anti-China, antipeople and antiparty."

Translations

opposing a particular political party

• Georgian: ანტიპარტიული (anṭiṗarṭiuli)
• Portuguese: antipartidário, antipartido, antipartidos

Noun

antiparty (plural antiparties)

1. (politics) A political party that shuns or rejects the mainstream political establishment.
   • 1999, Douglas Torgerson, The promise of green politics: environmentalism and the public sphere, page 46:

     Differences arise over what kinds of organization are desirable (eg, political parties or antiparties, professionalized organizations, decentralized networks, communes, grassroots groups) and over tactical questions of what is to be done […]

Translations

a political party that shuns or rejects the mainstream political establishment

• Georgian: ანტიპარტია (anṭiṗarṭia)
• Portuguese: antipartido m

See also

• antipolitics