1. grass roots - Noun
2. grass roots - Adjective
the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity)
the essential foundation or source
Source: WordNetgrass-roots
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. Lester Bangs
Injustice happens at many levels, from the grass roots to the top. And one of the keys of SEWA's vision and action is linking them. Ela Bhatt
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. Duncan Sheik
We can't depend on the Democrats ... They got there and betrayed the grass roots that put them there. Cindy Sheehan
We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother. Buddy Wakefield
I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues. George Noory