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noun
A right-wing political movement that supports free markets, supply-side economics and an interventionist foreign policy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: conservatism, conservativism
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- English conservatism English neoconservatism From neo- + conservatism.
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