liberally
liberal
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɪb.ər.əl/ us /ˈlɪb.ər.əl/

liberalnoun[C] (SOCIETY)

someone who respects many different types of beliefs or behaviour: 自由主义者
I am a liberal who believes in tolerance.
The city has a reputation for equality and tolerance, and has traditionally been a haven for liberals.
Liberals preach freedom of thought.
They are the sort of fake liberals who proclaim tolerance out of one side of their mouths and issue snobbish put-downs out of the other.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Open-minded
anti-liberal
anti-liberalism
big tent
broad-minded
broad-mindedness
inclusively
liberalism
liberality
liberally
live and let liveidiom
open-minded
open-mindedly
open-mindedness
permissive society
receptive
tolerance
tolerant
tolerantly
unblinkered
undogmatic

liberalnoun[C] (POLITICS)

someone who believes in personal freedom and that society should change gradually so that money, property, and power are shared more fairly:
She says she is proud to identify herself as a liberal and a feminist.
finance & economics specialized
someone who believes businesses should have a lot of freedom to buy, sell, and make money without many rules or limits, and with low taxes:
Three strands make up the party: the moderate reforming centre, the Thatcherite economic liberals, and the pro-clerical conservatives.
"This is the first time anyone has referred to me as a liberal," he said. "Usually I'm pretty far over on the right."
Dole portrayed the president in campaign speeches as a "closet liberal".多尔在竞选演讲中将总统描绘为“藏而不露的自由主义者”。
Most of them are economic liberals or populists, and support tax cuts and government-spending reductions.
Economic liberals eventually became Republicans, political liberals Democrats.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Politics - general words
anti-capitalism
anti-capitalist
anti-communism
anti-communist
anti-fascism
interparty
interpellate
interpellation
interventionist
lab
Orwellian
overstep
parliament
party politics
personality cult
statesman
statesmanlike
stateswoman
subsidiarity
super-conservative

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Economics

liberal | American Dictionary

liberal
adjective
us/ˈlɪb·ər·əl/

liberaladjective (SOCIAL)

allowing many different types of beliefs or behavior:
a liberal society/person

liberaladjective (POLITICS)

politics & government
tending to emphasize the need to make new laws when necessary because of changing conditions and to depend on the government to provide social services:
a liberal policy/position

liberaladjective (GENEROUS)

giving or given in a generous way:
Some merchants offer very liberal return policies, but others are strict.

liberaladjective (NOT EXACT)

without attention to or interest in small details:
Other teachers are a lot more liberal about spelling errors than Mr. Brady.
liberal
noun[ C ]
us/ˈlɪb·ə·rəl/

liberalnoun[C] (POLITICALLY LIBERAL PERSON)

a person who thinks the government needs to make new laws when necessary because of changing conditions and who believes that the government should provide social services:
Liberals in Congress support the bill.

liberal | Business English

liberal
adjective
uk /ˈlɪbərəl/us
respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour:
a liberal society/attitude/viewChanging attitudes to sexuality are a reflection of a more liberal society.
a liberal policy/stanceThe government defends its liberal policy on soft drugs.
POLITICS
used to describe political beliefs and groups that support more personal freedom and a fairer sharing of wealth and power in society:
The federal government is bound to be a coalition involving the liberal party.
ECONOMICS, POLITICS
used to describe an economic system that allows industry to be free to develop without the involvement of government:
The successes of liberal economic policies in the US and Britain act as powerful examples.
giving or given in a generous way:
Terms were liberal, with small down payments and government financing.
not exact, and without attention to or interest in detail:
They now take a more liberal interpretation of their powers.
liberal
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɪbərəl/us
someone who respects many different types of beliefs or behaviour:
Liberals believe that in order to defend our own freedom we ought to defend those of our fellow citizens.
someone who supports personal freedom and a fairer sharing of wealth and power in society:
He described his opponent as a liberal who would tax the rich.

Examples of liberal

liberal
Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results.
Political parties, despite their weaknesses and manipulation, are characteristic of liberal democracy.
Yet important normative questions have remained about the policies a liberal state should adopt toward religion.
The very fact that the word "philosophia" has been transferred from the seven liberal arts to natural science and metaphysics is significant.
The university's participants occasionally suggested that the creation of an international university in the liberal mode was not their ultimate goal.
The campaign against the radical liberals encountered a number of difficulties.
The debates demonstrated the importance of a more liberal regime after 1901.
The authors definitely take a liberal economic approach, which is mainly formulated in chapters eleven and twelve.
The first phase of liberal social policy supported a dual model with a strong call for self-help and philanthropic initiatives.
Here is a 7-point scale on which the political views that people might hold are arranged from extremely liberal to extremely conservative.
Quite simply, the liberal state apparatus is a generic public interest system of administration.
After two years of tolerance toward liberal clubs, their leaders were arrested and organisations disbanded in 1902.
I unearthed only two other sets of articles expressing a liberal viewpoint - one published before the legislation was passed and the other subsequently.
He believed that even more was required of modern citizens to insure a stable liberal system.
The irony was that conservatives and liberals both believed that public opinion was on the other side.
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