antireservation

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adjective

Opposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.

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Meanings

adjectiveantireservation (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOpposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.

    From April onwards, however, the antireservation agitation and communal riots took place simultaneously. During that month, the antireservation agitation spread to Saraspur and Gomtipur in the industrial belt; [...]

    2016, Megha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict, →ISBN
  2. not comparableOpposing the confinement of Native Americans to Indian reservations.

    Smohalla attracted groups of defiant, antireservation Indians to his community near Priest Rapids.

    1998, Barry Pritzker, Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples, →ISBN, page 354

Origin

From anti- + reservation.

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APA

antireservation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireservation

MLA

“antireservation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireservation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antireservation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antireservation.

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