Luddite

['lʌdait]

Definition

(noun.) one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment.

(noun.) any opponent of technological progress.

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Definition

(n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.

Edited by Ben