英语词汇“astroturf movement”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. figurative. Originally Politics. Simulated or artificially created public or grass-roots support for a policy, product, movement, etc., generated by an organized campaign; cf. astroturfing n. 2. Frequently attributive, as Astroturf lobbying, Astroturf movement, etc.

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1972 Washington Post 7 May b4/1 As a grassroots movement..the new populism ‘is just a bunch of salesmen hawking Astroturf’.]

1985 Washington Post 7 Aug. a4/6 ‘A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass roots and Astro Turf,’ Sen. Lloyd Bentsen..said of his mountain of cards and letters from opponents of the insurance provisions. ‘This is generated mail.’

1995 Time 23 Jan. 18/1 Congressional staffs are getting better at spotting pseudo-grass-roots (‘Astroturf’) lobbying.

1999 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. a14/3 There have..been Potemkin-like efforts at local organizing, a process that is known by some consumer advocates as Astroturf campaigns... Contrived rallies were staged in front of San Francisco City Hall, for instance.

2003 R. Newman Fountain at Centre of World iii. 31 [At] the Competitive Enterprise Institute in New York for a year... his job was mainly laying astroturf, an industry in-joke meaning fake grassroots.

2010 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Features section) 3 Critics contend it's merely an ‘astroturf’ movement,..heavily promoted by conservative media outlets.

单词	astroturf movement
释义	> as lemmas Astroturf movement 2. figurative. Originally Politics. Simulated or artificially created public or grass-roots support for a policy, product, movement, etc., generated by an organized campaign; cf. astroturfing n. 2. Frequently attributive, as Astroturf lobbying, Astroturf movement, etc. ΚΠ 1972 Washington Post 7 May b4/1 As a grassroots movement..the new populism ‘is just a bunch of salesmen hawking Astroturf’.] 1985 Washington Post 7 Aug. a4/6 ‘A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass roots and Astro Turf,’ Sen. Lloyd Bentsen..said of his mountain of cards and letters from opponents of the insurance provisions. ‘This is generated mail.’ 1995 Time 23 Jan. 18/1 Congressional staffs are getting better at spotting pseudo-grass-roots (‘Astroturf’) lobbying. 1999 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. a14/3 There have..been Potemkin-like efforts at local organizing, a process that is known by some consumer advocates as Astroturf campaigns... Contrived rallies were staged in front of San Francisco City Hall, for instance. 2003 R. Newman Fountain at Centre of World iii. 31 [At] the Competitive Enterprise Institute in New York for a year... his job was mainly laying astroturf, an industry in-joke meaning fake grassroots. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Features section) 3 Critics contend it's merely an ‘astroturf’ movement,..heavily promoted by conservative media outlets. extracted from Astroturfn. < as lemmas
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