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US
/ˈɡɹæsˈɹuts/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːsɹuːts/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːsɹuːts/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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fundamental
the grassroots factor in making the decision -
of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament
How To Use grassroots In A Sentence
- AMEN: Grassroots Football is an incredible interactive roadbook from photographer Jessica Hilltout that depicts the essence of soccer as experienced throughout the African continent. Daniel Maree: Six Positively Promising World Cup Campaigns You Might Have Missed
- The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). Jezebel
- It is for logistical rather than symbolic reasons that we are meeting at Old Albanian rugby club in Hertfordshire rather than Twickenham, but it allows Steele to make the point that he hopes to nurture the grassroots as well as the elite game, especially the enthusiastic volunteers that sustain it. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
- Less open-minded grassroots coaches dislike the option as their egos crave 10-0 scorelines. Times, Sunday Times
- Pickles is a grassroots "leafleteer" the type of a Local Government Pol and Political obsessive that are in fact the hallmark of the DimLebs. Eric Pickles made a fool of himself on Question Time
- If there is a perception that the elite end of the game has sometimes become estranged from the volunteers that drive the grassroots, Steele has vowed to bring them back together, using the prize of a home World Cup as the driving force. 2015 will offer us an opportunity in three areas. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
- When large-scale resistance movements remain grassroots they are thus indestructible.
- What we have now is a kind of a disconnect between that genuine grassroots movement and the old oligarchs, if you will, who are busy self perpetuating themselves.
- But super-power trappings offer only a flimsy mask for the realities of poverty and are no substitute for grassroots economic development.
- Opinion at the grassroots level is sympathetic to the strikers.