Homegrown

Word HOMEGROWN
Character 9
Hyphenation homegrown
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Definitions and meanings of "Homegrown"

What do we mean by homegrown?

Raised or grown at home. adjective

Originating in or characteristic of a locality. adjective

Grown or produced at home or in a specific locality; -- of plants or animals. adjective

Originating in a particular place or region; ; -- applied broadly, to people (especially people with specific skills), products of manufacture, etc. adjective

Grown at home. adjective

Created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner; done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization, or professional. adjective

Raised or brought up in one's own country. adjective

Grown or originating in a particular place adjective

Grown at home.

Created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner; done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization, or professional.

Raised or brought up in one's own country.

Originating in one's own country.

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The word "homegrown" in example sentences

Kennedy began his crusades against what he called "homegrown racial terrorists" during World War II after he was deemed unworthy for military service because of a back injury. ❋ Unknown (2011)

China is calling for the international community to help fight what it calls a homegrown terrorist problem in mostly Muslim Xinjiang. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But to then think that somebody in Canada or in the United States, or what we call the homegrown terrorist, can actually grow up amongst us, and is one of us, is a citizen of our country, and actually buy into this perverted ideology and attack us is something that we just -- we're still trying to grapple with it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Janet Napolitano says America needs to watch for what she calls homegrown, radicalized extremism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

PHELPS: And we have certainly had a-- first of all, black Catholics include not just what I call a homegrown African-American, but it includes the immigration of Africans from the continent, immigrations from the Caribbean and Latin America. ❋ Unknown (2008)

3 HOMEGROWN TERRORISM—The term homegrown terrorism means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At a recent Senate hearing, Michael Leiter, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the United States was experiencing a "spike in homegrown violent extremist activity," some of it involving individuals who were radicalized over the Internet. ❋ Peter Finn (2010)

We see an America where we invest in homegrown innovation and ingenuity, where we export more goods so we create more jobs here at home, where we make it easier to start a business or patent an invention. ❋ Anita Kumar (2010)

Would you call homegrown militias mounting a defense "patriots" or would you call them "terrorists"? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't think, again, we can be definitive about whether this is a plot that was directed from Al Qaida central, so to speak, or whether it reflects what we sometimes call homegrown terrorism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sources are using the word homegrown to describe them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

KING: And meet former gang members, who live to tell about a deadly lifestyle that some call homegrown terrorism, as we go to the front lines of America's gang way next on LARRY KING LIVE. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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