Usually means: Undermining authority or established system.
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  1. subversion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subversion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subversion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subversion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subversion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subversion, subversion: Wordnik
  7. subversion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subversion: Wiktionary
  9. subversion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. subversion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. subversion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. subversion: Dictionary.com
  13. subversion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Subversion (disambiguation), Subversion (political), Subversion (politics), Subversion (program), Subversion (software), Subversion (video game), Subversion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Subversion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. subversion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. subversion: Rhymezone
  18. Subversion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. subversion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. subversion: Free Dictionary
  21. subversion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. subversion: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Subversion (disambiguation), Subversion (politics), subversion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Subversion (disambiguation), Subversion (politics), subversion: Encyclopedia

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (obsolete) The act of subverting; overturning; flipping from beneath.
noun:  The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.
noun:  The condition of being subverted.
noun:  A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
noun:  A revision considered more similar to preceding subversions than a revision deemed a new "version" is to preceding versions.

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