Crossword clues for groundswell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
groundswell \ground"swell`\ (ground"sw[e^]l`), n.
A long, deep wave in the sea, sometimes caused by distant winds or storms.
A rising sentiment of support or enthusiasm, especially among the general public; as, a groundswell of opinion favoring campaign finance reform.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance 2 (context by extension English) A broadly-based shifting of public opinion
Wikipedia
Groundswell is the first LP album by Parts & Labor, released in 2003 on JMZ Records. The album is entirely instrumental. The enhanced content features a video for the song "Intervention".
Groundswell may refer to:
- Swell (ocean), a type of ocean wave
- Groundswell group, a political action group
- Groundswell (album), a 2003 album by Parts & Labor, and the title song
- Groundswell, the previous name of the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace
- Groundswell, a band created after the split of Ned's Atomic Dustbin by their lead singer Jonn Penney
- Groundswell (book), a 2008 book by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, dealing with marketing effectiveness
- Groundswell: The Second Diva Book of Short Stories, an anthology of fictional short stories about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people
- Groundswell (organization), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.
Groundswell is a book by Forrester Research executives Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff that focuses on how companies can take advantage of emerging social technologies. It was published in 2008 by Harvard Business Press. A revised edition was published in 2011.
The book attempts to explain a shift in the relationship between customers and companies, in which companies are no longer able to control customers' attitudes through market research, customer service, and advertising. Instead, customers are controlling the conversation by using new media to communicate about products and companies.
Groundswell is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that aims to organize individual consumer purchases into collective community power, turn consumer engagement into civic engagement, and drive market transformation for social good. Groundswell's programs focus on clean energy and energy efficiency, and the organization claims to engage economically diverse communities by helping them to switch to clean power and participate in local energy efficiency incentives. According to the organization's annual report, since its founding in 2009, Groundswell's work has resulted in the procurement of more than 180 million kilowatt hours of clean energy for nearly 4,000 families and small businesses and reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking 27,500 cars off the road.
Usage examples of "groundswell".
How To Stage the Countercoup We, the people, can start a groundswell that will eventually topple the Bush/Cheney Junta–with a commitment of only a couple of hours a week.
On the video screen, to the accompaniment of Bach supported by the alien groundswell of electric guitars from the floor below, Raquel Welch in an animal-skin bikini fled from a dinosaur.
Now the groundswells were getting taller, their crests torn off, but the bulk of every wave remaining, its face surging up as it encountered the sea bottom.
The groundswell was coming out of the north, almost directly ahead of them, so that looking to port or starboard the horizon line was particularly jagged, a wavy line of blue water against the blue sky, in a too-small circle surrounding the ship-as if the proper Terran distance to the horizon were stubbornly embedded in the brain's optics, so that when they saw things clearly here, they would always appear to stand on a planet too small for them.
The groundswell was coming out of the north, almost directly ahead of them, so that looking to port or starboard the horizon line was particularly jagged, a wavy line of blue water against the blue sky, in a too-small circle surrounding the ship—.
In fact, he had expected to face down the Emperor there, aided by a groundswell of popular support from the other nobles.