grassroots group
Community-led movement
A grassroots group is an organization formed by ordinary people rather than established institutions or political elites.
The term emphasizes bottom-up origins—local citizens mobilizing around shared concerns rather than responding to top-down directives: A grassroots group organized to oppose the highway expansion.
Such groups may grow into larger movements but retain the label to signal authentic, community-driven origins.
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- community organizingCollective local civic engagement
- activistVigorous cause champion
- communityCollective of connected people
- organizingSystematically putting in order
movement · volunteers · local · door to door · petition · letter writing · rally · campaign · voter registration · get out the vote · phone banking · advocacy · mobilize · collective · neighborhood · citizens · coalition · protest
grassroots groupestablishment
Founded organization or venue
political machine · power structure · ruling class · the powers that be · governing body
grassroots groupgovernment agency
State administrative body
corporation · multinational corporation · bureaucracy · lobbying firm · professional association
grass, root, roots, grassy, grasses, grassland, rooted, rooting, rootless