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# indoctrination

«indoctrination» in Mova's school dictionary: **teaching someone to accept ideas or beliefs without…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (indoctrination; no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Indoctrination is teaching someone to accept ideas or beliefs without questioning them or thinking for themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#m1)

2) (formal) Training people to believe one side only, often by a group or government. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history, news and talk about education and safety. It tells the reader that people were made to believe something in an unfair, one-sided way. Phrases: «political indoctrination», «a form of indoctrination».

### examples

- The book describes the indoctrination of children in a strict regime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#x1)
- Good teaching encourages questions, not indoctrination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#x2)
- Some groups use indoctrination to control their members. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#x3)
- She escaped long indoctrination and learned to think freely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#x4)
- Propaganda is a tool of indoctrination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#x5)
- The film warns about online indoctrination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: indoctrinate. Negative word: it is not the same as «teaching» or «education». Learning to ask questions protects you from it.

### In the corpora

- ["Re-education" means forced political indoctrination: people are made to repeat and accept the government's ideas, often in camps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «indoctrination» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indoctrination/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.