progressives
- 1Plural of progressive.
The party's progressives pushed for sweeping reforms to healthcare and housing.
Local progressives organized a rally outside city hall last weekend.
Note
One spelling serves every noun sense of progressive, so context decides the reading. Most often it means reform-minded people. Capitalized, it names members or supporters of a Progressive Party. A grammarian's progressives are verbs in the -ing tense, and a host's progressives are progressive dinners, clipped to a single word. Where the political and party senses overlap, the capital letter is the only signal of which one is meant.
progressives is a form of progressive
progressive, noun: A person with liberal or reform-minded political beliefs. Full entry
- Forms
- progressiveprogressives plural
- Spelling
- progressive → progressives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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