Kampfbegriff

German

Etymology

Kampf (fight) + Begriff (term). Compare English fighting words.

Noun

Kampfbegriff m (genitive Kampfbegriffes, plural Kampfbegriffe)

  1. a term which is often and polemically used by adherents of some opinion or ideology, particularly in order to claim that term and give it a partisan definition
    „Freiheit“ wurde zum Kampfbegriff der antisozialistischen Kräfte in den Staaten des westlichen Bündnisses.
    “Freedom” became a polemical term often repeated by anti-Socialist forces in the states of the Western alliance.
    „Rassismus“ ist ein Kampfbegriff geworden, mit dem die politische Rechte entlegitimiert werden soll.
    “Racism” has become a polemical term used to delegimitise the political Right.

Declension

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