reivindicativo
protest-oriented
adjective rreh-een-bee-dee-kah-TEE-boh Rare
Also means
demanding (of rights)
Usage Note
Reivindicativo describes an action, speech, or movement that asserts or demands rights: una marcha reivindicativa is a rights-demanding march. It derives from reivindicar (to claim, to demand) and is strongly associated with labour, feminist, and social-justice discourse in Spanish. It has no clean single-word English equivalent — 'assertive' or 'advocacy-driven' come close.
Examples
"La manifestación tuvo un carácter claramente reivindicativo."
Natural Translation
The demonstration had a clearly protest-oriented character.
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