Liberalnoun

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  governmentpoliticsA political party and philosophy

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  governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of a Liberal Party

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  governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors

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  governmentpoliticsA Liberal Democrat.

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  datedgovernmentpoliticsA Whig.

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  governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Liberaladj

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  Of or relating to the Liberal party, its membership, or its platform, policy, or viewpoint.

Liberalname

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  An unincorporated community in Spencer County, Indiana, United States.

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  A city, the county seat of Seward County, Kansas, United States.

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  A small city in Barton County, Missouri, United States.

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  An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

liberaladj/ˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹəl/

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  Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly.

  • He was liberal with his compliments.
  • Indeed, the Government has been very liberal in the expenditure of public money
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  Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.

  • Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.
  • For this reason a liberal amount of piping should be used. If a liberal supply of piping is provided at first, the first cost will of course be greater, but the extra expenditure is called for but once.
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  Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.

  • Her parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.
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  obsoleteUnrestrained, licentious.

  • Myself, my brother, and this grieved count, Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night, Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window; Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain, Confess'd the vile encounters they have had A thousand times in secret.
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  educationPertaining to a type of education the purpose of which is personal development rather than functional learning.

  • Americans remain enamored with Europe's ability to produce the consequential thought for America. It was the same in nearly every liberal field. Education sought its roots in such Europeans as Froebel, Frobenius, and Rousseau. Political science tried to connect to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Otto von Bismarck, for instance. Economics copied the thought of Adam Smith, […]
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  educationPertaining to a type of education the purpose of which is personal development rather than functional learning.

  • He had a full education studying the liberal arts.
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  governmentpoliticsOpen to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical liberalism or "modern liberalism"/progressivism.

  • Endorsing the liberal anti-interventionist credo that the marketplace should act as the "site of verification," the advocates of white lead opposed government intervention for the sake of open economic competition, which they claimed revealed its true value and thus should be the sole determinant: "When the railways were built, the stage coaches disppeared; they died a timely death. If zinc white is truly superior to white lead, it will kill us in the marketplace, but the government should not intervene." These were the words of Expert-Bezançon, in his February 1903 deposition to the parliamentary committee examining the bill for banning lead-based pigments in paint.

liberalnoun/ˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹəl/

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  One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).

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  governmentpoliticsSomeone with progressive or left-wing views, especially on social and environmental issues.

  • And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros As long as they don't move next door. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal.
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  governmentpoliticsA supporter of any of several liberal parties.

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  governmentpoliticsOne who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also called "classical liberal"; compare libertarian).

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  governmentpoliticsA conservative, especially a liberal conservative.