Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who belongs to the political left.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who espouses
left-wing political views. - noun A person who plays the position of
left wing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who belongs to the political left
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Examples
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If a left-winger from Hanna Maron's group were premier, she would probably appoint a friendlier interior minister and redefine the oath, but would not go as far as establishing the rule of law by revoking the gap between a promise and a promise kept.
Yoav Sivan: Provisional Loyalty to a Provisional State Yoav Sivan 2010
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Chelsea are closing in on another teenager, the 19-year-old Genk and Belgium left-winger Kevin De Bruyne.
André Villas-Boas urges Chelsea to step up chase for Luka Modric 2011
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Which is to say, he gets caricatured as this far-out-there left-winger with totally unrealistic and crazy views because of the aforementioned atheism, a perspective still widely disliked and mistrusted by many Americans.
Matthew Yglesias » The Costs of Ideological Correctness 2009
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The same Brazilian advertising hotshot who worked his magic to get a left-winger elected president of El Salvador in 2009 is running the presidential campaign of national socialist Ollanta Humala in Peru.
El Salvador Quits the Market Model Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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"Ten or 15 years ago when I was faced with a tricky left-winger the first thing I had to do was boot him up in the air."
Tackling is still nowhere as hard as in the bad old days Paul Wilson 2010
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Although certain right-wing websites are already using that and his listing of The Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books to claim that Loughner was a "left-winger," that does not strike me as true.
Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner? Mark Potok 2011
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Although certain right-wing websites are already using that and his listing of The Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books to claim that Loughner was a "left-winger," that does not strike me as true.
Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner? Mark Potok 2011
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There is not comparable term for a moment in which a Democrat gets in a fight with a left-winger and is hurt by it.
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Although certain right-wing websites are already using that and his listing of The Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books to claim that Loughner was a "left-winger," that does not strike me as true.
Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner? Mark Potok 2011
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The choice sets up a rerun of the 2008 mayoral race, pitting veteran left-winger Livingstone against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson.
World Watch 2010
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