counterestablishment

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ establishment.

Noun

counterestablishment (plural counterestablishments)

1. An establishment that opposes another establishment.
   • 2007 October 7, Jonathan Rauch, “Crisis on the Right”, in New York Times‎:

     Founded in 1953 to seed a new conservative generation (and originally called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists), this pioneer of what would become a sprawling conservative counterestablishment boasted as its first president a young man named William F. Buckley Jr., who would go on to bigger things.