Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blue revolution

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: blue rev-o-lu-tion
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

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The large-scale proliferation of aquaculture in the late 20th century.

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A shift in law enforcement strategies and practices aimed at enhancing community management and improving public trust.

Example Sentences

"The order-maintenance approach has not been limited to scholarly books, law review articlees, and academic conferences. A number of the policy proposals have been implemented in large cities […] and in smaller cities and rural areas. In many cases, in fact, it is new policing strategies that have triggered social norm theorizing, not the other way around. And the combination of theorizing and practice has been truly combustible. It has ignited what has been dubbed the "Blue Revolution.""
"In contemplating the “Blue Revolution,” scholars of all stripes have generally proceeded on the assumption that no big-city police force in the postwar period offered an example of community policing worth investigating."

Etymology

In the policing sense, possibly coined by Michael Massing in the New York Review.

Inflected Forms

the Blue Revolution (canonical)

Questions

What does blue revolution mean?: The large-scale proliferation of aquaculture in the late 20th century.
Where does blue revolution come from?: In the policing sense, possibly coined by Michael Massing in the New York Review.

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