1) Adversary 2) Antagonist 3) Machine-wrecker diluted fluid 4) One opposed to technology 5) Opponent 6) Opposer 7) Opposite of an early adopter 8) Resister 9) Shunner of new technology 10) Unlikely Apple Store shopper 11) Unlikely smartphone user
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- any opponent of technological progress
- one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
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The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817. The stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms introduced during the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace the artisans with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work. Although the o...
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• (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
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member of the organized bands of 19th-century English handicraftsmen who rioted for the destruction of the textile machinery that was displacing ...
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One of a group of people involved in machine-wrecking riots in northern England 1811-16. The organizer of the Luddites was referred to as General Ludd, but may not have existed. Many Luddites...
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The Luddites of the early 1800s were part of an anti-technological, anti-industrial grassroots movem
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A derogatory term for someone who opposes or disapproves of new technology and/or new methods of working, often because the changes threaten jobs. From the Luddite rioters of 1811-16, who in defence of labourers' jobs in early industrial Britain wrecked new manufacturing machinery. See Luddite in the words origins page.
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Lud'dite noun One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned
Lud , a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
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n] - any opponent of technological progress 2. [n] - one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
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noun one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
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One of a group of people involved in machine-wrecking riots in northern England 1811–16. The organizer of the Luddites was referred to as General Ludd, but may not have existed. Many Luddites were hanged or transported to penal colonies, such as Australia. The movement, which began in Nottinghamshire and spread to Lancashire, Cheshire, Der...
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a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
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