An administrative level in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from 1958 to 1983.

(Christianity) The Quakers. / (Christianity, historical) A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.

Small-scale peddlers or traders operating in the wake of economic and political collapse, often having been displaced from the cities into the countryside.

(religion) A group who is has a special status and relationship to God.

Synonym of Fancy Dutch

plural of people sniffer

(US, military, historical) Any of a series of devices used to detect concealed enemy soldiers by traces of effluents such as sweat and urine.

plural of people's democracy

Journalism taking for its subject the lives of celebrities rather than traditional news and current affairs.

(politics) A theoretical concept within Marxism-Leninism and a form of government in communist states which developed after World War II and in theory allowed for a multi-class, multi-party democracy on the pathway to socialism, rather than a pure proletarian dictatorship.