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[ ohld -lahyn ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈoʊldˈlaɪn / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
long established; traditional: old-line society.
Origin of old-line First recorded in 1855–60
Words nearby old-line “Old King Cole”, Old Kingdom, old lady, Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, Old Latin, old-line , old-line party, Old Line State, Old Low Franconian, Old Low German, old maid
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Example sentences from the Web for old-line The old-line Conservatives opened up to new ideas and new voters, yes.
Are Conservative Civil Wars a Good Idea? | David Frum| March 4, 2013| DAILY BEAST
The case is reduced to a rescue of two old-line industrial companies that bend metal in the Midwest.
The Stimulus and Health Care President Runs on ... Tires and Cars? | David Frum| October 23, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Old-line media firms such as newspapers, book companies and the major networks may find themselves overmatched.
President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy | Joel Kotkin| February 15, 2012| DAILY BEAST
But all is not well at the old-line American Conservative Union, which throws the annual party.
The Right Invades Washington | Samuel P. Jacobs, Shushannah Walshe| February 8, 2011| DAILY BEAST
Jobs in the publishing world will shift away from old-line manufacturing and warehousing to technology, editorial, and creative.
Will the Book Survive? | David "Skip" Prichard| July 28, 2010| DAILY BEAST
The party passed over Colonel Roosevelt; the memory of 1912 was still too bitter to permit the old-line leaders to accept him.
Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements | Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan
Governor Rector had been elected, in the autumn of 1860, by the Democrats and old-line Whigs.
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist | Annie Heloise Abel
His cast of mind was essentially conservative, and down to 1856 he would no doubt have called himself an old-line Whig.
William Hickling Prescott | Harry Thurston Peck
In the first place, I would say he was not an old-line Whig.
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Four | Abraham Lincoln
And his opinion was that the old-line colleges tended to destroy individuality and smother initiative.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) | Elbert Hubbard
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British Dictionary definitions for old-line adjective US and Canadian conservative; old-fashioned
well-established; traditional
Derived forms of old-line old-liner , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to old-line rightist, rigid, regressive, counterrevolutionary, materialistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed, right, obscurantist, reactionary, conservative, common, acknowledged, approved, authoritative, by the numbers, canonical, conformist, conventional, correct