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greenlash

noun

Etymology

Blend of green + backlash.

  1. inherited from *laskô✻
  2. inherited from lashe
  3. prefixed as backlash — “back- + lash”
  4. compounded as greenlash — “green + backlash”

Definitions

  1. A backlash against environmental concerns.

    • Spain knows it has a problem. In a time of right-wing opposition to Europe’s environment-protecting Green Deal regulations — “greenlash,” it has been called — the progressive government of Spain has embraced an ecological transition.

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