What is Grassroots?
1.
local or person-to-person. A typical grassroots effort might include a door-to-door education and survey campaign. Includes political, educational, artistic, and especially collegiate movements involving the common people as constituting a fundamental politico-economic group
My friends and I started a grassroots campaign to oust the oligarchal university board of trustees.
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1. The groundwork or source of something.
2.
1. "We should really get back down to the grassroots."
2. "I listened to grassroots today and am still overwhelmed by it's awesomeness!"
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3.
having to do with something that originates from the common people
The chairman organized a grassroots movement to boycott Wal-mart.
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Buncha crazy assholes.
The guy who wrote the other entry and his friends sure are a buncha crazy grassroots assholes. I mean, come on. Oligarchal?
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