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  1. Unrest means disagreements or fighting between different groups of people, such as civil, social or labor unrest. Learn how to use this word in sentences and with other words, and see translations in different languages.

  2. Unrest definition: lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet. See examples of UNREST used in a sentence.

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    In Chile, the anger was sparked Oct. 6 by a four per cent increase to the price of riding the subway in the capital of Santiago. But it was as though someone had just picked a scab. Five days later, grocery stores were being looted, people were stockpiling food, and more than a dozen people were dead. "Chile woke up!" people chanted, as the protest...

    The months-long protests in Hong Kongwere sparked in the spring by anger over a government bill which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be extradited to face trial elsewhere, including in mainland China. But even after Hong Kong's embattled leader agreed to suspend the bill in July, the streets still seethed, as the protest expanded into a ...

    O'Brien says he can also draw a link between all of the economic and political unrest and climate change protests that have swept across the continentsin the past year. He points to how the movement is mobilizing hundreds of thousands of young people around dissatisfaction with how political institutions "don't seem to be taking account of the inte...

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  4. Unrest means disagreements or fighting between different groups of people, such as civil, social or labor unrest. Learn how to use this word in sentences and see its synonyms and antonyms.

  5. Learn the meaning of unrest as a noun, synonyms, example sentences, and word history. Unrest means a disturbed or uneasy state, such as turmoil or civil unrest.

  6. unrest: 1 n a state of agitation or turbulent change or development “social unrest ” Synonyms: agitation , ferment , fermentation , tempestuousness Type of: Sturm und Drang , turbulence , upheaval a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) n a feeling of restless agitation Type of: agitation the ...

  7. Unrest is a noun that means a political situation in which people are angry and likely to protest or fight. Learn how to use it in sentences, see synonyms and collocations, and compare it with related words.

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