entryism
Meanings
noun
- A political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate.
Word forms
Etymology
Previously spelt entrism, borrowed from French entrisme but reconstructed as entry + -ism.
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