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left wing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. left, left wingadjective

    those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

  2. leftist, left-of-center, left-wingadjective

    believing in or supporting tenets of the political left

Wiktionary

  1. left wingnoun

    the more left-wing faction of a group or party

  2. left wingnoun

    the left-hand side of a sports field

  3. left wingnoun

    the offensive player who plays to the center's left

Wikipedia

  1. left wing

    Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. Left-wing politics are associated with popular or state control of major political and economic institutions. According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, supporters of left-wing politics "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated."Within the left–right political spectrum, Left and Right were coined during the French Revolution, referring to the seating arrangement in the French Estates General. Those who sat on the left generally opposed the Ancien Régime and the Bourbon monarchy and supported the Revolution, the creation of a democratic republic and the secularisation of society while those on the right were supportive of the traditional institutions of the Ancien Régime. Usage of the term Left became more prominent after the restoration of the French monarchy in 1815, when it was applied to the Independents. The word wing was first appended to Left and Right in the late 19th century, usually with disparaging intent, and left-wing was applied to those who were unorthodox in their religious or political views. Ideologies considered to be left-wing vary greatly depending on the placement of the Overton window along the political spectrum in a given time and place. At the end of the 18th century, upon the founding of the first liberal democracies, the term Left was used to describe liberalism in the United States and republicanism in France, supporting a lesser degree of hierarchical decision-making than the right-wing politics of the traditional conservatives and monarchists. In modern politics, the term Left typically applies to ideologies and movements to the left of classical liberalism, supporting some degree of democracy in the economic sphere. Today, ideologies such as social liberalism and social democracy are considered to be centre-left, while the Left is typically reserved for movements more critical of capitalism, including anarchism, communism, Marxism and syndicalism, each of which rose to prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, the term left-wing has also been applied to a broad range of culturally liberal social movements, including the civil rights movement, feminist movement, LGBT rights movement, abortion-rights movements, multiculturalism, anti-war movement and environmental movement as well as a wide range of political parties.

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  1. left wing

    Left wing describes a political ideology that generally supports social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing beliefs align with progressive politics, advocating for social justice, labor rights, equitable wealth distribution, multiculturalism, and racial equality. The term is also associated with ideologies such as socialism, communism, and environmentalism. Left-wing political systems typically emphasize public control of the major aspects of political and economic life. However, the specific policies, principles, and practices of left-wing groups can greatly vary.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of left wing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of left wing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of left wing in a Sentence

  1. Bobby Bright:

    I will not let them taint me as a left-wing liberal, people know Bobby Bright. They know I'm conservative.

  2. Jeremy Adler:

    Desperate to win over the Warren-Sanders crew that deeply distrusts her, Secretary Clinton is willing to adopt even the most extreme left-wing views as her own. There is quite literally nothing she won’t do or say to fit in today’s modern Democratic socialist party.

  3. Jack Pandol:

    Ron Johnson is going to be defined by all these left-wing positions that Ron Johnson took in the past, there is a lot that voters are going to be made aware of in the coming months and that will be the first information that some voters are getting about Barnes.

  4. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    The left understands that they will not beat me at the ballot box, they exerted extraordinary pressure on the attorney general to issue an indictment even though there is nothing, in order to influence the elections and to crown a left-wing government.

  5. Ilya Somin:

    Whatever objection you have to this, whether it's a left-wing objection or right-wing objection or something else, you have to ask: not only is there some sort of a problem, but is it a great enough problem that we should be willing to consign thousands of people to death every year, and many more thousands to kidney dialysis?


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