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Meaning of "entryist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENTRYIST

ˈentrɪɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENTRYIST

noun
adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Entryist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENTRYIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Entryism

Entryism is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger organisation in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. In situations where the organization being "entered" is hostile to entrism, the entrists may engage in a degree of subterfuge to hide the fact that they are an organisation in their own right. In some cases the alleged entryists perceive themselves as supporters of a newspaper and not members of an organization.

Definition of entryist in the English dictionary

The definition of entryist in the dictionary is a person who engages in entryism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENTRYIST

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENTRYIST

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ENTRYIST

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Synonyms and antonyms of entryist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «entryist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENTRYIST

Find out the translation of entryist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of entryist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «entryist» in English.
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entryist
1,325 millions of speakers
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entryist
570 millions of speakers
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entryist
510 millions of speakers
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entryist
380 millions of speakers
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entryist
280 millions of speakers
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entryist
278 millions of speakers
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entryist
270 millions of speakers
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entryist
260 millions of speakers
fr

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entriste
220 millions of speakers
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Entryist
190 millions of speakers
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entryist
180 millions of speakers
ja

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entryist
130 millions of speakers
ko

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entryist
85 millions of speakers
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Entryist
85 millions of speakers
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entryist
80 millions of speakers
ta

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உட்புகுதல்வாத
75 millions of speakers
mr

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एंटिस्टिस्ट
75 millions of speakers
tr

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entryist
70 millions of speakers
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entryist
65 millions of speakers
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entryist
50 millions of speakers
uk

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entryist
40 millions of speakers
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entryist
30 millions of speakers
el

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entryist
15 millions of speakers
af

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entryist
14 millions of speakers
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entryist
10 millions of speakers
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entryist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of entryist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTRYIST»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about entryist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENTRYIST»

Discover the use of entryist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to entryist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite
THE. ENTRYIST. TACTIC. The meeting was at Comrade Barker's Wilkinson- designed house at Castle Crag. Wilkinson-designed homes were for the rare souls who combined money with good taste. Comrade Barker had preserved enough of ...
Kenneth Gee, 2006
2
New Labour, Old Labour: The Wilson and Callaghan Governments ...
In the 1960s the RSL decided to adopt an 'entryist' tactic: it set up an organisation , under the guise of supporters of its weekly Militant, aimed at expanding its influence, multiplying its cadres and disseminating its message by burrowing quietly ...
Kevin Hickson, Anthony Seldon, 2004
3
Faces of Labour: The Inside Story
... an entryist who belonged to no identifiable entryist organization, who was sufficiently Trotskyist to be barred from standing for 255 CLARE SHORT.
Andy McSmith, 1997
4
Reconstructing the Psychological Subject: Bodies, Practices, ...
However, the entryist tactic, noted by Spears, suggests another possibility. Under the guise of methodology, a new way of writing is introduced. Once the text is changed, so is the nature of what is to be called psychology, and, in consequence, ...
Betty M Bayer, John Shotter, 1998
5
Conflict Studies
try to exploit left-inclined sections of opinion, to move them further left, closer to a Trotskyist line, and gradually shift the whole balance of the party away from reformist, social democratic policies towards revolutionary ones. And thirdly, entryist ...
6
Gay men and the left in post-war Britain: How the personal ...
The groups on the Left had their own entryist agendas. They wanted to set the political agenda around Northern Ireland, and presumably recruit a few members on the way. On one level, the GLF shared the alliance's sense that the Catholic ...
Lucy Robinson, 2007
7
The Scottish National Party: Transition to Power
At various stages, the SNP has been an organization with characteristics of each of these options, apart from those of the entryist category. As a party with no prospect of forming a government at Westminster but with blackmail potential, ...
James Mitchell, Lynn Bennie, Rob Johns, 2012
8
Sigmar Polke: Back to Postmodernity
In this sense all idiomatic manifestations in Polke's work should be interrogated for their entryist ramifications. His adoption of Pop took a form which seemed unchallenging to American (and American-inspired European) Pop because of the ...
David Thistlewood, Anne MacPhee, Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1996
9
Intercontinental Press
Moreover, the entryist tactic had been established almost fifteen years earlier on the perspective, based on the relationship of forces of the time, that the crisis of the old leaderships would develop through the formation of left tendencies within  ...
10
The Organization of Political Parties in Southern Europe
The party started to practice "entryist" tactics through associated organizations in 1985. Development of flanking structures and FN-related trade unions is now among the major goals of the national leadership's strategy. The main targets of the ...
Piero Ignazi, Colette Ysmal, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENTRYIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term entryist is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Champion secular, human rights approach in struggle against …
The report notes important distinctions in various strands of extremist thought and tactics, comparing entryist strategies from "political Islamists" ... «National Secular Society, Jul 15»
2
Cameron backing counter-extremism strategy marks a fundamental …
“We know from examples such as the Trojan horse affair in Birmingham that extremists use entryist tactics to infiltrate extremist organisations to ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
Time to forgive and forget?
A Labour Party member, but also the chief PR front-man for the secretive, Trotskyite 'entryist' group, the Militant Tendency. Militant had its main ... «The Northern Echo, Jun 15»
4
Tower Hamlets: the rise and fall of Lutfur Rahman
Jim Fitzpatrick appeared on the programme and said the IFE was “acting almost as an entryist organization, placing people within political ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
Who, What, Why: What was Militant?
From the mid-1970s its critics claimed it pursued an "entryist" policy of attempting to gain key positions within the Labour Party in an effort to ... «BBC News, May 15»
6
Protest movements split in the new Hong Kong
... led by the Civic Passion and Hong Kong Indigenous groups and displaying what looked like classic entryist tactics: jumping on a bandwagon ... «The National, May 15»
7
General Election 2015: What Your Voting Choice Says About You
You are: a Welsh social worker; a Welsh NHS administrator; a Welsh quangocrat; a Welsh civil servant; a Welsh Islamist entryist; a Welsh ... «Breitbart News, May 15»
8
Four brave Davids who finally beat the lying, corrupt Goliath
Like the militant tendency of old, the IFE practised what the then MP for Polar and Limehouse, Jim Fitzpatrick, called an “entryist organisation” ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
9
Boris's linguistic sensitivities about extremism miss the point
... change the law to facilitate this, but instead build resilience within our institutions to prevent their Islamist entryist strategies of, as an example, ... «Left Foot Forward, Apr 15»
10
UKIP Candidate Condemns 'Cult of Evil Islam'
At the time Fitzpatrick had told the Sunday Telegraph that Muslims were: “Acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the ... «Breitbart News, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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