people's party

1. 1.

   a former political party in the United States; formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads

   SynonymsPopulist Party

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Questions about people's party

What does people's party mean?

people's party means "a former political party in the United States; formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads".

What is another word for people's party?

Close synonyms include Populist Party. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is people's party a common word?

people's party is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.