Synonyms for grass roots
grass roots

Princeton's WordNet

1. grass rootsnoun

   the essential foundation or source

   "the problem was attacked at the grass roots"

2. grass rootsnoun

   the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)

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1. • Folk
   • Foundation

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1. Christie Gross:

   This has to be an effort that comes up from the grass roots. It has to come from patients, it is extraordinarily exposing.

2. Desmond Meade:

   Never before has Florida seen such a huge grass-roots movement, and we did, these people rallied from all political spectrums, all walks of life, they rallied around this and said, ‘ We, as citizens of Florida, are going bring sunshine back to this state. ’ According to polling experts, Amendment 4 is tracking high among voters.

3. Neil Findlay:

   Actually what has happened is that the grass roots of the campaign have simply become more resilient and more enthused by every attack, it has been utterly counterproductive.

4. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   We're having a grass roots, corporate-free political revolution in the United States, in 2018, it's not enough to just turn red districts blue. We need to turn blue districts bluer. If in a district that's 85% Democrat, if this seat hasn't been leading the charge on progressive issues, what's the point?

5. Elizabeth Warren:

   This is going to be a grass-roots campaign, i'm here to ask every one of you to be a part of this, anything you can do : Volunteer, take a sign, pitch in five bucks, any part of it.