the Opposition
noun [S, + sing/pl verb]Definition
› in some political systems, the elected politicians who belong to the largest party that does not form the government: the Leader of the Opposition The Opposition has/have condemned the government's proposed tax increases.Government ministers and civil servants
(Definition of the Opposition noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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