political dissident

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   a dissenter from political orthodoxy

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Questions about political dissident

What does political dissident mean?

political dissident means "a dissenter from political orthodoxy".

Is political dissident a common word?

political dissident 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.