Lud|dite

Lud|dite
Lud|dite «LUHD yt», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a member of any one of the organized bands of workmen in England (1811-16) who set about destroying manufacturing equipment because they believed that it lessened employment.
2. a person who is strongly opposed to increased mechanization or automation in any field.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Luddites or with Luddism: »

Luddite riots. In American estimates, however, port capacity can be greatly increased by quick installation of modern equipment—if the Indian Government is really determined to override the Luddite resistance of the wharf labour (London Times).

╂[perhaps < Ned Lud, a weak-minded person, who destroyed equipment in a Leicestershire village about 1779 + -ite1]

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