antiriot

English

Alternative forms

• anti-riot

Etymology

From anti- +‎ riot.

Adjective

antiriot (not comparable)

1. Serving to counteract rioting.
   • 1990, Brigitte Lebens Nacos, The Press, Presidents, and Crises:

     Thus, the administration was not in favor of an antiriot bill before Congress that was designed to curb militant blacks suspected of encouraging riots.

   • 2001, Neil Websdale, Policing the poor:

     ...who told him that things were spiraling out of control in Edgehill and that the police were conducting antiriot maneuvers there.

Translations

serving to counteract rioting

• Catalan: antidisturbis, antiavalots
• French: antiémeute (fr)
• Galician: antidisturbios
• Spanish: antidisturbios, antimotines

Anagrams

• tritonia