The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word REVOLUTION
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More clues leading to the result REVOLUTION
- Most prominent supporter of trades union backed uprising
- Perversely love to ruin circuit such as 1 down, 2, 4, 9, 17, 18, 23 and 29
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- Rising, minister’s answer: “No start to synod?”
- Temperature university aficionado raised spinning number one Beatles hit
- Heads rolled in this French affair
- Organise our violent struggle
- Right growth is needed for change
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- Turn, rising
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What does REVOLUTION mean?
REVOLUTION noun- A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
- The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
- A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.