conservatives
- 1Plural of conservative.
Fiscal conservatives within the party pushed back against the proposed budget increase.
The debate split social conservatives from their more libertarian colleagues.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, but the capital letter carries meaning. Lowercase conservatives are people who favor tradition or the status quo. Capitalized Conservatives are members of a party, in British and Canadian use, or followers of Conservative Judaism. Qualified forms such as fiscal conservatives and social conservatives name tradition in one domain and belong especially to American and Canadian usage.
conservatives is a form of conservative
conservative, noun: Someone who works to preserve traditional values and institutions, especially in politics, sometimes in one area only, as a fiscal or social conservative. Full entry
- Forms
- conservativeconservatives plural, plural
- Spelling
- conservative → conservatives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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