Liberal party

noun

1. a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.

Liberal Party

noun

1. one of the former major political parties in Britain; in 1988 merged with the Social Democratic Party to form the Social and Liberal Democrats; renamed the Liberal Democrats in 1989

2. one of the major political parties in Australia, a conservative party, generally opposed to the Labor Party

3. one of the major political parties in Canada, generally representing viewpoints between those of the Progressive Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party

4. any other party supporting liberal policies

Example Sentences

In 1992, he was elected as a member of parliament for the conservative Democratic Liberal Party, but at the end of his four-year-term he did not run again.

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Carney led the Liberal Party to a fourth-straight electoral win last April, on the promise of taking a hard-nosed approach in trade negotiations with Washington and delivering relief for the Canadian economy.

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She trails badly in the polls behind Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla, an entrepreneur, and National Party candidate Nasry Asfura, a former mayor of the capital, Tegucigalpa.

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The centre-right Liberal Party have agonised in recent weeks over whether to drop the climate pledge, introduced by the party's former leader Scott Morrison when he was prime minister in 2021.

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The Liberal Party's decision comes just days after their conservative coalition partners, the National Party, voted to ditch their net zero by 2050 target.

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