单词 | liberal-conservative party |
释义 | > as lemmasLiberal-Conservative Party Liberal-Conservative Party n. (also with lower-case initials) a moderately conservative political party, or one advocating both liberal and conservative policies; spec. (in Canada) a coalition party which arose in the mid 19th cent. in support of confederation, later renamed the Conservative Party. ΚΠ 1840 Mirror of Parl. (3rd Sess., 14th Parl.) 1 446/1 I do not mean the high Conservative party, but that off-set from it—that moderate, I may call it that Liberal Conservative party. 1856 Quebec Colonist in Liverpool Mercury 6 June 8/5 The ministry..will return to office, taking in one or two new men from the ranks of the liberal conservative party. 1902 J. C. Hopkins Progress of Canada in Cent. xvi. 403 The party then formed around..Sir John A. Macdonald was called the Liberal-Conservative party, and this somewhat absurd name is still used upon formal occasions. 1981 Environmental Rev. 2 31 The biggest party in the country [sc. Iceland], the Independence Party, a liberal-conservative party. 2009 M. M. Brescia & J. C. Super N. Amer. iv. 78 Canada also has a history of two dominant parties that trace their origins to the nineteenth century. The Liberal-Conservative Party..formed as a variant of the Conservative Party in Britain. < as lemmas |
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