Tra từ conservative - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conservative estimate (=deliberately low)
▪ By conservative estimates, 2.5 million people die each year from smoking cigarettes.
a traditional/conservative approach
▪ This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching.
the Conservative/Liberal Democrat/Socialist etc leader (=leader of a political party)
▪ the Conservative leader, David Cameron
the Labour/Conservative/Social Democratic etc government
▪ In August 1931, the Labour government collapsed.
vote Conservative/Democrat etc (=vote for someone who is Conservative etc)
▪ Cubans in the city of Miami have traditionally voted Republican.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
agenda
▪ In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda.
▪ You can't bring the country together and drive through the conservative agenda at the same time.
▪ Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda.
▪ I can help keep a conservative agenda in the House.
commentator
▪ Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community.
▪ But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.
▪ Phil Gramm of Texas at 5. 7 percent and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan at 3. 9 percent.
▪ The tone then was set by conservative commentator and unsuccessful presidential contender Pat Buchanan, who forecast a cultural and religious war.
▪ Gramm said he had to win Louisiana, but was trounced by conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan.
▪ The conservative commentator visited South Carolina last week after his win in the New Hampshire primary.
democrat
▪ John Tanner, another conservative Democrat.
estimate
▪ Even this conservative estimate of problem loans amounts to a striking 8% of the total loans in banks' portfolios.
▪ But on conservative estimates its size is likely to triple by 2025.
▪ At a conservative estimate the water was nearly a yard deep, even near the edge.
▪ Any differences that emerged could therefore be regarded as conservative estimates for the species as a whole.
▪ Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile.
▪ By conservative estimates, the agency has pared 2, 200 jobs in the past two years through attrition and early retirement.
▪ All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths.
▪ A conservative estimate is that 6 percent are homeless.
forces
▪ But conservative forces have begun to show signs of a slight retrenchment in their assaults on the president's agenda.
▪ The initiative moved firmly back into the hands of more conservative forces within the government.
▪ Far from being a new threat, evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades.
▪ The conservative forces were successful at first.
government
▪ He says that he feels most workers would think that they have survived despite the conservative government, not because of it.
▪ The belief in a less restrictive conservative government has foundation.
group
▪ That's the option favoured by the conservative group.
▪ The Washington Legal Foundation, a conservative group, has challenged the program in Texas.
▪ In the conservative group the overall incidence of stenosis will be very similar to that of the invasive group.
▪ It has been claimed that criminals, sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country.
majority
▪ Its conservative majority seemed to be moving steadily against the New Deal from 1935.
▪ The ruling highlighted the strength of the conservative majority on the current Supreme Court.
▪ It was alleged that there was an in-built conservative majority.
opposition
▪ The conservative opposition managed to prevent any real discussion of political change.
▪ In the past three months, all major opinion polls have placed the conservative opposition ahead of the government.
▪ The conservative opposition was composed of the privileged orders and institutions whose position had been challenged by liberal legislation.
▪ Yet family-planning funds to Third World countries have been limited because of conservative opposition.
▪ In the light of this document, conservative opposition to the constitution all but disappeared.
▪ Mrs Cresson has already several times hinted that parliament may be dissolved if the conservative opposition tries to block government bills.
party
▪ You are a man of the left, yet you are in a government backed by a conservative party.
▪ The leader of the conservative party, Lucas Alaman, was selected as president of the group.
▪ Without him, the conservative party closed its ranks and remained in power.
▪ I hope the people who have suffered from the recession will continue to support the conservative party.
▪ There was a swing of almost 8 % against the conservative parties.
▪ Now we are left with a choice of two conservative parties.
▪ One Nation won only three seats compared with 11 at the previous election; but it took votes from the conservative parties.
politician
▪ The takeover of power by conservative politicians lasted only three days.
▪ Some conservative politicians were inclined to agree.
▪ Finally, and most significantly, he was not a military man, but a lawyer and former conservative politician.
▪ Dozens of prominent conservative politicians and activists are working to generate memorials to honor the 90-year-old Reagan.
▪ No, say conservative politicians and industrialists, who are campaigning to save the nuclear plants.
position
▪ Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.
▪ Taken in its own terms, the conservative position is unanswerable.
▪ We now think of an insistence on grammatical correctness as a conservative position.
republican
▪ John McCain, a conservative Republican from Arizona.
state
▪ Women very quickly got left out of the picture and it was a very conservative state that took over.
▪ South Carolina proved why it is one of the three most conservative states in the union-along with Utah and Mississippi.
▪ Desperate to win in the third most conservative state, Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.
▪ Mary Landrieu, D-La., won her seat by 5, 788 votes, squeaking by conservative State Rep.
view
▪ He had terrifyingly conservative views on the ordination of women.
▪ They use it to promote conservative views.
▪ But on other prominent subjects, many more students are embracing staunchly conservative views.
▪ But with his conservative views on welfare and other issues affecting women, he was hardly our ideal candidate.
▪ The commission also said Brown is prone to inserting conservative views into opinions.
vote
▪ Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
▪ The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state.
wing
▪ In fact, some party stalwarts, particularly those from the religious conservative wing begged him to seek the nomination.
▪ He recalled watching the Democrats rebuff their own conservative wing until they lost their majority.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Labour/Conservative/Green etc vote
▪ Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.
▪ But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.
▪ But the Green vote has disintegrated.
▪ Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
▪ The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a conservative newspaper columnist
▪ a conservative rural community
▪ Despite Dave's quiet, conservative appearance, he has a wicked sense of humor.
▪ Even conservative dressers should update their wardrobes from time to time.
▪ June's parents were very conservative and wouldn't allow her to date till she was 18.
▪ middle-aged men in conservative business suits
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this latest phase has now also emboldened Bush to press forward with his agenda in strong, conservative strokes.
▪ Dear old staid, conservative, non-violent Britain.
▪ On a conservative estimate, there are now about 5,000 books or articles that deal with it, at least in part.
▪ The left is hardly vigorous today; and, for the moment, there seems little chance of mobilizing a conservative society.
▪ They're also fairly conservative when it comes to social attitudes.
▪ They are as morally conservative as their parents.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Gramm may not win over economic conservatives.
▪ Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives.
fiscal
▪ He was a fiscal conservative even during the Reagan deficit years.
▪ All the leading Republican governors qualify as fiscal conservatives.
▪ Now, the fiscal conservatives of the east coast have come out on top.
political
▪ None of the existing forms of political reflection-conservative, liberal, socialist, Gandhian-have faced this problem openly.
▪ He came out of the war a hero and a political conservative.
▪ While he denies substantive impacts, he is a staunch political conservative.
religious
▪ To religious conservatives, however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
▪ After a ferocious election campaign, religious conservatives lost their majority on the board in November.
▪ Lena is a staunch religious conservative who slaps her atheistic daughter across the face.
▪ Some religious conservatives have opposed the act, saying it unfairly penalizes people to overprotect lesser forms of life.
▪ These days, the evolution issue is symbolic of the legislative influence of religious conservatives.
▪ But the candidate himself continues to court religious conservatives with fiery attacks on abortion and on Sen.
▪ By some estimates, as many as 2 of every 5 Iowa Republican voters are religious conservatives.
▪ Still, Buchanan appeals to abortion opponents, gun rights advocates and religious conservatives.
republican
▪ It was loathed by the Republican conservatives and the private-power interests.
▪ Dole will argue that he is the one candidate who may bridge the differences among Republican conservatives.
▪ The principal goal of Republican conservatives is to reverse the Roe v Wade ruling.
social
▪ Bush is not viewed as a strong ally by social conservatives.
▪ Mr Forbes will also have to persuade wary social conservatives, especially pro-lifers.
▪ He is attracting all sorts of working folks, Ross Perot supporters, social conservatives and Reagan Democrats.
▪ Still, many social conservatives in Colorado Springs are less concerned with party ideology than defeating Clinton.
▪ Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives.
▪ Those who govern the existing system, no matter how left-wing and revolutionary their political ideologies, are social conservatives.
staunch
▪ Both men are staunch conservatives, but of the two Lott is the more ideological and aggressive.
▪ Forbes is a staunch conservative, but the liberal Jerry Brown once proposed a similar plan.
▪ Lena is a staunch religious conservative who slaps her atheistic daughter across the face.
▪ While he denies substantive impacts, he is a staunch political conservative.
VERB
win
▪ Mitch McConnell, a conservative, won his third term.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conservative with a small 'c'/democrat with a small 'd' etc
the Labour/Conservative/Green etc vote
▪ Although the Labour vote was still six million, its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910.
▪ But anti-Tory feeling in a recession-battered area has polarised the Labour vote to his disadvantage.
▪ But the Green vote has disintegrated.
▪ Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.
▪ The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to a recent poll, the governor has lost support among conservatives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both men are staunch conservatives, but of the two Lott is the more ideological and aggressive.
▪ But the Rehnquist court is supposed to be composed of conservatives.
▪ But there are conservatives, who, while acknowledging the successes of quantum mechanical methods, caution against complacency.
▪ He, the apparent conservative, is the wild tiger, it turns out.
▪ Phil Gramm of Texas made speeches in which they wholeheartedly embraced the agenda of religious conservatives.
▪ They ranged across the political spectrum from rightwing conservatives to left-wing socialists.

conservative

I. con‧ser‧va‧tive¹ /kənˈsɜːvətɪv $ -ɜːr-/ adjective
1. not liking changes or new ideas:
　 ▪ a very conservative attitude to education
　 ▪ conservative views

2. Conservative
belonging to or concerned with the Conservative Party in Britain:
　 ▪ Conservative policies
　 ▪ a Conservative MP

3. not very modern in style, taste etc SYN traditional:
　 ▪ a dark conservative suit

4. a conservative estimate/guess
a guess which is deliberately lower than what the real amount probably is:
　 ▪ At a conservative estimate, the holiday will cost about £1,500.

—conservatively adverb:
　 ▪ a fortune conservatively estimated at 2 million dollars
　 ▪ He was conservatively dressed in a dark business suit.

II. conservative² noun [COUNTABLE]
1. Conservative
someone who supports or is a member of the Conservative Party in Britain

2. someone who does not like changes in politics, ideas, or fashion:
　 ▪ an argument between reformers and conservatives in the organization