Définition de opposition en anglais

opposition

noun

/ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ us

/ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

opposition noun (DISAGREEMENT)

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C1 [ U ]

strong disagreement:

opposition to There is a lot of opposition to the proposed changes.

in opposition to The unions are in opposition to the government over the issue of increasing the minimum wage.

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Plans to desegregate the schools met with opposition.
She left home in the face of strong opposition from her parents.
The company took no heed of public opposition to the plans.
The strength of the opposition was rather more than she'd bargained for.
The plan for a new office tower went ahead regardless of local opposition.

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opposition noun (SPORT)

the opposition C1 [ S, + sing/pl verb ]

the team or person being played against in a sports competition:

The opposition has/have some good players so it should be a tough match.

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Competitors & participants in sports & games

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the Opposition

noun [ S, + sing/pl verb ]

/ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ us

/ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

in some political systems, the elected politicians who belong to the largest party that does not form the government:

the Leader of the Opposition

The Opposition has/have condemned the government's proposed tax increases.

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Government ministers & civil servants

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(Définition de opposition depuis le Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

«opposition» en anglais américain

opposition

noun [ U ]

/ˌɑp·əˈzɪʃ·ən/

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disagreement with something, often by speaking or fighting against it, or (esp. in politics) the people or group who are not in power:

The proposal faces strong opposition.

They expect to defeat the opposition.

(Définition de opposition depuis le Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Exemples de opposition

opposition

What he misses is the tension of unreconciled oppositions and the excitement of an experiment in motion.

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The former is based on simple binary systems of oppositions and can be glossed as the preserve of autonomy.

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Additive relations are considered contrastive when they are exceptions or oppositions, but there is no causal relationship between the segments.

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I would call those oppositions between society and the material world, subject and object, history and nature, dualisms.

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We may then finally be able to resolve the historical oppositions between events and structure, between agency a nd evolution, between processual and postprocessual approaches.

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To sum up, the conventional understanding of market relationships can be expressed by two oppositions: market/social and self-regarding/ self-sacrificing.

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In practical terms, these gendered oppositions contributed substantially to the shape of repression in the postwar period.

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In most of these cases, what one actually finds are typical local oppositions, loyal to statewide powerholders and organised along familiar clientelistic and personalistic lines.

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What interactional resources are used to create, display, sustain, and escalate social oppositions?

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Thus, were the opposition's dilatory tactics particularly troublesome, time could be extended.

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Proposition 2b predicts that the government's agenda will become either less contentious or smaller or both when the opposition's power to delay is enhanced.

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Considering the circumstances, one can argue that these simple, structured binary oppositions did have some logical appeal.

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The ordering of oppositions on the stressed levels is determined by means of the phonic substance that differentiates the forms.

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The two groups and their identities, in other words, were and still are constituted through an array of dialectic oppositions.

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The second set corresponds to those morphosyntactic properties that reflect syntactic or semantic oppositions such as tense or agreement.

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Collocations avec opposition

opposition

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active opposition

Later also, some mothers' active opposition to the scheme was referred to in committee meetings.

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armed opposition

A catalyst was needed to translate feelings of resentment and alienation into a broader theme of armed opposition.

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binary opposition

This would seem to be a further binary opposition in her work.

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Comment se prononce opposition, the Opposition?

Traductions de opposition

en chinois traditionnel

反對, （強烈的）反對，反抗，對抗, 體育…

Définition de opposition en anglais

opposition noun (DISAGREEMENT)

opposition noun (SPORT)

«opposition» en anglais américain

Exemples de opposition

Collocations avec opposition

opposition

Traductions de opposition

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