Usually means: Nonviolent opposition to authority, control.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. passive resistance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. passive resistance: Merriam-Webster
  3. passive resistance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. passive resistance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. passive resistance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. passive resistance: Vocabulary.com
  7. passive resistance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. passive resistance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. passive resistance: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. passive resistance: Dictionary.com
  11. Passive Resistance (Hungary), Passive resistance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. passive resistance: Rhymezone
  13. passive resistance: FreeDictionary.org
  14. passive resistance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. passive resistance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. passive resistance: Wiktionary

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  1. passive resistance: Legal dictionary

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  1. passive resistance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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noun:  noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate

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