moderates
- 1Plural of moderate.
The moderates broke with the hardliners and backed a compromise budget.
Centrist moderates held the balance of power after the election.
Note
A plural that usually names a group, the people within a party or movement who stand between its extremes. The noun was formed from the adjective, which takes no plural. In Scottish Church history the plural names a whole party, dominant in the eighteenth century, lax in doctrine and discipline yet hostile to evangelicalism and popular rights. Its quarrels drove the secessions of 1733 and 1761 and ended in the Disruption of 1843.
moderates is a form of moderate
moderate, noun: A person whose position lies between extremes, especially in politics. Full entry
- Forms
- moderatemoderates plural
- Spelling
- moderate → moderates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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