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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A right-wing political movement that supports free markets, supply-side economics and an interventionist foreign policy. US, countable, uncountable
2. 2
   an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) wordnet

Example

More examples

"Neoconservatism has discredited itself."

Etymology

From neo- + conservatism.

Related phrases

right wing

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