populist party

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsPeople's Party

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Questions about populist party

What does populist party mean?

populist 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 populist party?

Close synonyms include People's 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 populist party a common word?

populist 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.