- Americanization
- anti-classical
- anti-conventional
- anti-institutional
- anti-traditional
- costume
- counter-tradition
- crowd
- custom
- demi-monde
- mores
- multicultural
- multiculturalism
- multiculturally
- non-classical
- traditionally
- ultra-conservatism
- ultra-conservative
- ultra-traditional
- unconventional
Meaning of conservatism in English
the policies and beliefs of the Conservative party (= the British political party that traditionally supports business and opposes high taxes and government involvement) :
The politics of the newspaper reflect traditional Conservatism.
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- The Liberal candidate said that Conservatism had "departed once and for all" from County Durham.
- British Conservatism was reinvigorated by this echo of former military power.
- There was a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland.
- Some of the advisers brought into government by Mrs. Thatcher disliked the old-style Conservatism.
- But all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.
- He disliked what he called its bourgeois conservatism.
- I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
- She was New England austerity and conservatism embodied.
- The dominant feeling both in East and West was one of dislike to change, which we may conveniently call conservatism.
conservatism | Intermediate English
conservatism | Business English
Republican candidates have tried to highlight their fiscal conservatism.
ACCOUNTING
If a situation arises in which there are two acceptable alternatives for reporting an item, conservatism directs the accountant to choose the alternative that will result in less net income.
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Examples of conservatism
conservatism
The conservatism is in part scar tissue from the financial crisis.
From Slate Magazine
Not just in talk shows and think-tanks and wherever conservatism is talked about in all sorts of different ways, but in governing.
From The Atlantic
The 2012 election, by myriad metrics, served as a stinging rebuke to religious conservatism.
From Slate Magazine
As the degree of conservatism rose, so, too, did the hostility that people experienced.
From The New Yorker
Indeed, there is a certain genius to neoconservatism, which one must grant a certain grudging respect.
From Foreign Policy
The success of neoconservatism can be traced to three key strategems.
From Foreign Policy
Conservatism and liberalism didn't become the central division in our politics until the middle of the 20th century.
From Heritage.org
His conservatism, he said, was built on ideas and principles, not on fear and anger.
From Los Angeles Times
Is this something that's connected to the resurgence of conservatism later in the century?
From Slate Magazine
Correctly sensing conservatives' desire for anti-establishment candidates, he tacked hard to the right, renouncing his previously moderate positions on immigration and emphasizing his social conservatism.
From The Atlantic
As a political movement dedicated to never changing, conservatism has succeeded admirably.
From Huffington Post
The philosophical alternative was a blend of conservatism, with its emphasis on order and custom, and libertarianism, with its belief in freedom.
From Heritage.org
Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics.
From Slate Magazine
This is as good as it gets within movement conservatism.
From The Atlantic
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