Meaning Of The Word Luddite

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Luddite
If you refer to someone as a Luddite, you are criticizing them for opposing changes in industrial methods, especially the introduction of new machines and modern methods.

Luddite in American English
noun: 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

Luddite in British English
adjective: of or relating to the Luddites
noun: any of the textile workers opposed to mechanization who rioted and organized machine-breaking between 1811 and 1816

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