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Noun: Luddite  'lú,dIt
  1. One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
     
  2. Any opponent of technological progress

Derived forms: Luddites

Type of: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister, working person

Encyclopedia: Luddite