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fas⋅cist

  [fash-ist]
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–noun
1. a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
2. (often initial capital letter) a member of a fascist movement or party.
3. a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.
–adjective
4. Also, fa⋅scis⋅tic  [fuh-shis-tik] . of or like fascism or fascists.
Origin:
1915–20; < It fascista, equiv. to fasc(io) (see fascism ) + -ista -ist

Related forms:
fa⋅scis⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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fas·cist   (fāsh'ĭst)   
n.  
  1. often Fascist An advocate or adherent of fascism.
  2. A reactionary or dictatorial person.
adj.  
  1. often Fascist Of, advocating, or practicing fascism.
  2. Fascist Of or relating to the regime of the Fascisti.

[Italian fascista, from fascio, group; see fascism.]
fas·cis'tic (fə-shĭs'tĭk) adj.
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fascist

adj.
1. [common] Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant `fascistic' seems to have been preferred at MIT, poss. by analogy with `touristic' (see tourist or under the influence of German/Yiddish `faschistisch').
2. In the design of languages and other software tools, `the fascist alternative' is the most restrictive and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or provide tighter error checking. Compare bondage-and-discipline language, although that term is global rather than local.
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Language Translation for : fascist
Spanish: fascistafascista,
German: faschistisch,
Japanese: ファシスト
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fascist 
1921, from It. partito nazionale fascista, the anti-communist political movement organized 1919 under Benito Mussolini (1883-1945); from It. fascio "group, association," lit. "bundle." Fasci "groups of men organized for political purposes" had been a feature of Sicily since c.1895; the 20c. sense probably infl. by the Roman fasces (q.v.) which became the party symbol. Fascism, also 1921, was originally used in Eng. 1920 in its It. form, fascismo. Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923.
"A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." [Robert O. Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism," 2004]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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fascist jargon
Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant "fascistic" seems to have been preferred at MIT.
In the design of languages and other software tools, "the fascist alternative" is the most restrictive and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or provide tighter error checking. Compare bondage-and-discipline language, although that term is global rather than local.
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(2003-07-29)

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