| struggle | strenuous effort, the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her |
wrestle
wrestling grapple
grappling
hand-to-hand struggle | the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat, they had a fierce wrestle, we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully |
| struggle battle | an energetic attempt to achieve something, getting through the crowd was a real struggle, he fought a battle for recognition |
conflict
struggle battle | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals), the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine, police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs |
class struggle
class war
class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
| freedom of thought | the right to hold unpopular ideas |
| freedom of religion | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom of the press | a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom of assembly | the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom to bear arms | a right guaranteed by the nd amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
freedom from self-incrimination
privilege against self incrimination | the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself |
| freedom from double jeopardy | a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from cruel and unusual punishment | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from involuntary servitude | a civil right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| freedom from discrimination | immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age, guaranteed by federal laws of the United States |
| degree of freedom | (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution |
| degree of freedom | one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system |
Basque Homeland and Freedom
Basque Fatherland and Liberty
Euskadi ta Askatasuna
ETA | a terrorist organization organized in by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party, want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees, in ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials |
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Freedom Party | the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia, advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state |
Popular Struggle Front
PSF | a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in but now have close relations with al-Fatah, staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border |
Revolutionary People's Struggle
ELA | an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from to , a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States |
| freedom rider | one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation |
insurgent
insurrectionist
freedom fighter
rebel | a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) |
| freedom | the condition of being free, the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints |
| academic freedom | the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions |
| freedom of the seas | the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters |
exemption
freedom | immunity from an obligation or duty |
contend fight
struggle | be engaged in a fight, carry on a fight, the tribesmen fought each other, Siblings are always fighting, Militant groups are contending for control of the country |
| struggle | to exert strenuous effort against opposition, he struggled to get free from the rope |
clamber
scramble shin
shinny
skin
struggle
sputter | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling |
fight
struggle | make a strenuous or labored effort, She struggled for years to survive without welfare, He fought for breath |