entryism

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entryism

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Previously spelt entrism, borrowed from French entrisme but reconstructed as entry + -ism.

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uncountable A political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate. Conservative MPs are warning of a risk of entryism in the party as the pro-Brexit group Leave.EU encourages its supporters to become members in order to back Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg in a future leadership contest.

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中文	打入主義 /打入主义
Français	entrisme
Deutsch	Entrismus

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@misc{entryism_2026,
  title = {entryism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/entryism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}