worker-peasant-soldier
adjective
(With reference to the People's Republic of China) of or relating to industrial workers, peasants, and soldiers; belonging to the industrial, agricultural, or military class.
- Especially with (now historical) reference to the Maoist doctrine that, when universities and colleges reopened in the latter stages of the Cultural Revolution, students from industrial, agricultural, or military backgrounds should be admitted irrespective of academic qualifications..
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in China Quarterly.
- reciprocity
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- reciprocity theorem
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- recircle
- recirculate
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- recirculation
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- recision
- recissory
- recitable
- recital
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- recitation
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- recitation music
- recitation note
- recitative
- recitatively
- recitativo