Usually means: Advocates for the common people.
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  1. populists: Merriam-Webster
  2. populists: Collins English Dictionary
  3. populists: Vocabulary.com
  4. Populists, populists: Wordnik
  5. populists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. populists: Wiktionary
  7. Populists: Dictionary.com
  8. Populists: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Populists: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See populist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (populist)

noun:  A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
noun:  A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
noun:  A person who advocates democratic principles.
adjective:  Democratic.
adjective:  (of a political policy) Put forward just because it would be popular.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to populism.
▸ Also see populist


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