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Luddite
noun
- any of a group of workers in England (1811-16) who smashed new labor-saving textile machinery in protest against unemployment and reduced wages
- a person opposed in principle to technological change: a pejorative term
adjective
of or relating to Luddites
See Luddite in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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