Usually means: Individuals opposing official policy, authority.
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  1. dissidents: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissidents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dissidents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dissident's, Dissidents, dissident's, dissidents: Wordnik
  5. dissidents: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dissidents: Wiktionary
  7. dissidents: Dictionary.com
  8. dissidents: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dissidents: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dissidents: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See dissident as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dissident)

adjective:  In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
adjective:  (Northern Ireland) Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).
noun:  A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
noun:  (Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
noun:  (Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
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