egalitarian

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  1. adjective Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people.

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  • Plans that used city budgets to reduce costs for telecom or provide municipal services are more egalitarian, and seem to have won the day. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • In numerous realms he has challenged-often eviscerated - reigning "common sense," in a way that is informed by a global, egalitarian, anti-imperialist, and more recently, a communist perspective. —  Kasama
  • This consciousness is strongly egalitarian, anti-hierarchical, pluralistic, valuing diversity and multiculturalism, and emphasizing relativistic value systems. —  Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking
  • In an egalitarian world the Right apparently has no choice but to appeal to the democratising instincts of the mass; appealing to pro-elitist instincts has become difficult given a pseudo-egalitarian* media that pumps out anti-bourgeois culture. —  British Blogs
  • Researchers conclude that while many think and say they are egalitarian, there appear to be negative, perhaps subconscious, beliefs that still hold us in their angry grip. —  Scientific American
 

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  1. From French égalitaire, from égalité, equality, from Latin aequālitās, from aequālis, equal; see equal.
 

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