POPULISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does populism mean? 

• POPULISM (noun)
  The noun POPULISM has 1 sense:

1. the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

  Familiarity information: POPULISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("populism" is a kind of...):

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)

Derivation:

populist (someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite)