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women's movement

a movement or campaign to achieve women's rights, specif., the widespread movement begun in the mid-20th cent. chiefly in North America and Europe

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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