(typically in a political context) a person who opposes someone or something.
（多用于政治语境）反对派成员；反对党人；反对者
a prominent oppositionist who criticized the party line
一名批评政党路线的著名反对人士。
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In 1929 he visited Trotsky in exile, taking back with him a letter to Russian oppositionists.
Other oppositionists are in hiding, with a total of 58 people now charged with treason.
This is to be the last capitulation of a leading oppositionist to be accepted by Stalin.
The Gestapo was above all used in the systematic struggle against government oppositionists.
The recent attacks follow in a long line of assaults on oppositionists in Zimbabwe.
In many respects, the methods employed against oppositionists under Stalinism were reminiscent of the medieval Inquisition.
Now that the former oppositionists are also cabinet ministers, developing a healthy party system is the least of their priorities.
For all the noise made by oppositionists, the weekend events had all the intensity of a storm in a teacup.
Funds available under the Iraq Liberation Act began to flow to Iraqi oppositionists.
The noose which the oppositionists try to lay around Israel is going to be to their own detriment.
Their example was followed by a considerable number of the rank-and-file oppositionists.
That could propel the abrasive oppositionist - the man China least wants - to victory.
The British government is well aware of the fate that awaits oppositionists who have been forcibly returned to Zimbabwe.
Soon after Bush took office, the flow of money to various Iraqi oppositionists began to substantially increase.
And there are charges of kidnapping, detaining without trial and murdering of oppositionists.
Taya, who seized power in a coup in 1984, ran a despotic regime in which oppositionists were routinely imprisoned.
Their tasks seemed perhaps more realisable in Spain than that of the oppositionists in any other country.
I suppose they feel they have to be automatic oppositionists.
Objective factors existed that explain why the question of terrorism occupied the minds of the young Moscow oppositionists.
In Uzbekistan in 2005, President Islam Karimov rounded up scores of oppositionists claiming they were sinister Islamic militants.
adjectiveɒpəˈzɪʃ(ə)nɪst
Relating to opposition or oppositionists.
反对的；反对派的；反对党的
oppositionist union leaders
反对派的工会领袖。
Example sentencesExamples
Even the minimal goal of a better equilibrium, a more compromised hegemony, a more effective defense of democratic government, can only be achieved through oppositionist politics.
In the end, does Hitchens spell out the secret to living a full and satisfied life while placing yourself firmly in the oppositionist camp?
With a view to their own advantage, the Social Democrats and Greens are trying to encourage the right-wing opposition around Haider to pursue their oppositionist stance.
But the core of the oppositionist case put best by Berry goes wider than trade deals or pesticides.
There has always been an oppositionist left and a constructive left.
They are therefore open to a turn to the Turkish Islamists, who have won a considerable following in recent months with their oppositionist demagogy.
Neil is at pains to stress he is not the oppositionist wrecker of the devolved parliament.
The war had been on for barely a week before the Washington Post, or at least some of its writers, went into an oppositionist mode.
A further indication of the Kremlin's increasingly authoritarian policy is its attack on oppositionist media since mid-May.
When oppositionist leaflets were distributed in the Moscow ball bearings plant in 1935, more than 300 workers were arrested the next day.
I expect them to become the generators of change in a way similar to that in which oppositionist parliament forces were in Ukraine.
The situations were very similar, with violations of individual rights, unruly investigations into oppositionist activists, and a drastic gap between the extremely poor and privileged rich.
Another kind of oppositionist politics might arise within international civil society.
But the underlying dissatisfaction of society is palpable there, and oppositionist forces have significant roles in parliament.
Too many left-wingers adopt a crude oppositionist stance, while leaving their own positive agenda unspoken and therefore unchallengeable.
I still have in my library the oppositionist pamphlets and Marxist analyses of the vexed land question in Rhodesia that I bought there when Ian Smith was premier.
There is no evidence to connect them with any oppositionist faction.
Persecution of the Iranian Stalinists in the Tudeh party and other oppositionist elements began in earnest.
A dispute by court clerks - on strike since last November - has held up the trial of oppositionist demonstrators.