Synonyms for grass roots
grass roots

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)

Matched Categories

1. • Folk
   • Foundation

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1. 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.

2. Ewan McGregor:

   They try and find someone local, it's very grass roots, it's usually quite small but hugely effective projects that they help fund and try and champion.

3. Carolyn McLarty:

   We stand behind him as the RNC. We represent the grass roots from across the country, and with all the media and attacks and things that have been going on, it was time for us to stand up and say we support you, you're doing a good job.

4. Lui Yi-shan:

   Compared with the housing policies over the past two years, this year's policies are even more disappointing to the grass-roots, especially the subdivided flat dwellers.

5. 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.