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neoconservative - 2 dictionary results

ne⋅o⋅con⋅serv⋅a⋅tism

[nee-oh-kuhn-sur-vuh-tiz-uhm]
–noun
moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.

Origin:
1960–65; neo- + conservatism


ne⋅o⋅con⋅serv⋅a⋅tive, noun, adjective
ne·o·con·ser·va·tism also ne·o-con·ser·va·tism   (nē'ō-kən-sûr'və-tĭz'əm)   
n.  An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: "The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
ne'o·con·ser'va·tive adj. & n.
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