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passive resistance
noun
- opposition to a government or to specific governmental laws by the use of noncooperation and other nonviolent methods, as economic boycotts and protest marches.
passive resistance
noun
- resistance to a government, law, etc, made without violence, as by fasting, demonstrating peacefully, or refusing to cooperate
passive resistance
- A technique of demonstrating opposition to a government's activities simply by not cooperating with them. It is particularly associated with Mahatma Gandhi , who opposed violent revolution in his own country's fight for independence. ( Compare civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance .)
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- passive re·sister noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of passive resistance1
First recorded in 1880–85
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