Antonyms for grass rootsgrass roots

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Princeton's WordNet

1. grass rootsnoun

   the essential foundation or source

   "the problem was attacked at the grass roots"

2. grass rootsnoun

   the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

How to use grass roots in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth Warren:

   This is going to be a grass-roots campaign, i'm here to ask every one of you to be a part of this, anything you can do : Volunteer, take a sign, pitch in five bucks, any part of it.

2. Mark Sanford:

   I suspect it would stir up the rank and file. And when you get the rank and file at the grass-roots level, other folks get stirred up within the conference.

3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   We're having a grass roots, corporate-free political revolution in the United States, in 2018, it's not enough to just turn red districts blue. We need to turn blue districts bluer. If in a district that's 85% Democrat, if this seat hasn't been leading the charge on progressive issues, what's the point?

4. Ted Cruz:

   Between the campaign fund-raising and the super PAC fund-raising, we have over $40 million cash in the bank, we have not seen a true grass-roots movement conservative with serious fund-raising ability since 1980.

5. Beverly Tillery:

   There is more mobilization happening, and trans folks are finding each other and working together, the community is resilient, and we see grass-roots efforts like groups that are literally going door-to-door checking on people. We are at a place right now where you could be on your way to work and not know whether you are going to come back.

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