gesture politicsnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈdʒes.tʃə ˌpɒl.ɪ.tɪks/us/ˈdʒes.tʃɚ ˌpɑː.lə.tɪks/UK disapprovingany action by a person or organization done for political reasons and intended to attract public attention but having little real effect:
The call for a one-day national strike was dismissed as gesture politics.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Politics - general words
- a political football idiom
- apolitical
- communism
- con
- conservative
- Leninism
- Lib Dem
- liberal
- Liberal Democrats
- Maoism
- politicize
- politics
- polity
- populism
- populist
- the National Front
- the Third Way
- Tory
- tour of duty
- usurp
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