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"args": {},
"expansion": "antigovernment (plural antigovernments)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017, Richard K. Betts, Conflict After the Cold War:",
"text": "Insurrection and subversion are primarily the weapons of indigenous antigovernments. Foreign governments, of course, may encourage antigovernments.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A government set up to oppose another government."
]
}
],
"word": "antigovernment"
}
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