Laborite
Americannoun
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a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
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(lowercase) an advocate or member of a labor union or movement.
Etymology
Origin of Laborite
Example Sentences
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As far as I knew, Regev had never before spoken about growing up in a Laborite home.
From New York Times
Playboy‘s Hugh Hefner took a whack on the backside… The police even victimized a member of the British Parliament, Mrs. Anne Kerr, a vacationing Laborite who was Maced outside the Conrad Hilton and hustled off to the lockup. …”The force used was the force that was necessary,” insisted Police Superintendent James Conlisk Jr.
From Time
He finds the breezy condescension of a Laborite like Herzog almost as hard to swallow as the contempt of someone like Lieberman.
From The New Yorker
"United," he says, sounding like a seasoned adult laborite, "we as child workers can achieve anything."
From Time
As Gad Ya'acobi, a Laborite and Minister of Economics and Planning, noted, "We have institutionalized the tyranny of the minority."
From Time Magazine Archive
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