McCarthyism

n [U] 1 (after US Senator J R McCarthy) policy of accusing people, esp in Government departments, of being Communists in order to remove them from their positions 麦卡锡主义. 2 any similar policy of pursuing people with Communist or unorthodox views; witch- hunt (对亲共者或持异见者的)政治迫害.


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