Usually means: Refusal to obey unjust laws.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word civil disobedience:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil disobedience: Merriam-Webster
  2. civil disobedience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. civil disobedience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. civil disobedience: Collins English Dictionary
  5. civil disobedience: Vocabulary.com
  6. civil-disobedience: Wordnik
  7. civil disobedience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. civil disobedience: Wiktionary
  9. civil disobedience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. civil disobedience: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. civil disobedience: Dictionary.com
  12. Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), Civil Disobedience (essay), Civil Disobedience, Civil disobedience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. civil disobedience: Rhymezone
  14. civil disobedience: FreeDictionary.org
  15. civil disobedience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. civil disobedience: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. civil disobedience: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil disobedience: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Civil Disobedience: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. civil disobedience: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)
  3. civil disobedience: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. civil disobedience: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (civil disobedience)

noun:  A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.

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