leftadjective, adverb
uk/left/us/left/A2 on or towards the side of your body that is to the west when you are facing north:
His left eye was heavily bandaged.
Turn left at the lights.
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right adjective
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- Turn left at the traffic lights, and you'll see the hospital straight ahead.
- To divide by ten, move the decimal point one place to the left.
- Our house is the third from the end on the left.
- He has no sight in his left eye.
- Hold your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right hand.
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General location and orientation
- -oriented
- about
- along
- anterior
- around
- back onto sth
- bearing
- far
- front
- frontal
- hind
- nearside
- offside
- on-site
- orientated
- overleaf
- position
- positional
- round
- spot
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leftnoun
uk/left/us/left/left noun (DIRECTION)
A2 [ S ] the left side:
First I'll introduce the speaker sitting on my left.
Take the first/second/third on the left.
It's the street to the left of the hotel.
US After the grocery store I made/took/informal hung a left (= turned into the next road on the left side).
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- My house is on the left.
- I sat to her left.
- Take the road on the left.
- The picture is lower on the left.
- I moved quickly to the left.
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General location and orientation
- -oriented
- about
- along
- anterior
- around
- back onto sth
- bearing
- far
- front
- frontal
- hind
- nearside
- offside
- on-site
- orientated
- overleaf
- position
- positional
- round
- spot
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left noun (POLITICS)
the left also the Left [ S, + sing/pl verb ]
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- The journal is broadly sympathetic with the left.
- He has always been on the left of the party.
- Parties of the left united to defeat the measure.
- Her politics are of the left.
- The left is generally sympathetic to their cause.
the political groups that believe wealth and power should be shared between all parts of society:
The war is generally opposed on the left.
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Political movements & groups
- alt-right
- ANC
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- awkward
- Blairite
- hawkish
- Islamist
- labor
- left-winger
- leftist
- PAC
- Plaid Cymru
- political action committee
- republican
- right-winger
- the SDLP
- the Third Way
- the SDLP
- Whig
- Zionism
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leftverb
uk/left/us/left/past simple and past participle of leave
leftadjective
uk/left/us/left/relating to political groups that believe wealth and power should be shared between all parts of society:
The left wing of the party is unhappy with the legislation.
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Politics - general words
- a political football idiom
- apolitical
- communism
- con
- conservative
- Leninism
- Lib Dem
- liberal
- Liberal Democrats
- Maoism
- politicize
- politics
- polity
- populism
- populist
- the National Front
- the Third Way
- Tory
- tour of duty
- usurp
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