antireform
adjEtymology From anti- + reform.
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Government, Politics Opposing reform
- It was top-down, antireform politics.1990 October 5, Ben Joravsky, “Annals of school reform: the security guard snafu”, in Chicago Reader:
- Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders.1994, United States Central Intelligence Agency, “Russia”, in 1994 CIA World Factbook:
- Derived terms
- antireformism, antireformist