Definitions

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  • adjective Opposed to the tenets of communism.
  • noun One who is opposed to the tenets of communism.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ communist

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Examples

  • Efforts to give financial support to groups creating such software recall anticommunist programs during the Cold War, when the United States government backed broadcasters like Radio Free Europe, which provided news and information to countries where a free press was banned.

    International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions 2010

  • Efforts to give financial support to groups creating such software recall anticommunist programs during the Cold War, when the United States government backed broadcasters like Radio Free Europe, which provided news and information to countries where a free press was banned.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Efforts to give financial support to groups creating such software recall anticommunist programs during the Cold War, when the United States government backed broadcasters like Radio Free Europe, which provided news and information to countries where a free press was banned.

    NYT > Global Home 2010

  • Efforts to give financial support to groups creating such software recall anticommunist programs during the Cold War, when the United States government backed broadcasters like Radio Free Europe, which provided news and information to countries where a free press was banned.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • An historical example of this is how the United States 'support for "anticommunist" dictatorships in Latin America during the Cold War continues to haunt our relations with that continents' people and governments today.

    The Washington Note Ben Katcher 2010

  • Before we knew it, people affiliated with Bob Jones University, the ultraconservative Christian school in South Carolina, and the Christian Crusade, an anticommunist organization in Oklahoma, had picked up the argument and were organizing opposition to our bill.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I had come of age in a generation of Democrats who were reliably anticommunist—Jack Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Hubert.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Before we knew it, people affiliated with Bob Jones University, the ultraconservative Christian school in South Carolina, and the Christian Crusade, an anticommunist organization in Oklahoma, had picked up the argument and were organizing opposition to our bill.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I had come of age in a generation of Democrats who were reliably anticommunist—Jack Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Hubert.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Before we knew it, people affiliated with Bob Jones University, the ultraconservative Christian school in South Carolina, and the Christian Crusade, an anticommunist organization in Oklahoma, had picked up the argument and were organizing opposition to our bill.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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