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Meanings of conservative in English
Catalan
conservador Spanish
conservador Resistant to change.
Catalan
conservador Spanish
conservador Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
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Examples for "button-down"
Examples for "button-down"
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The camo print goes blue and the button-down gains instant cool points.
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Then, before I knew what was happening, he'd stripped off his button-down.
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He had a heavy five o'clock shadow and his button-down was wrinkled.
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He was neatly dressed in Dockers and a perfectly pressed button-down shirt.
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He wore a blue button-down shirt and a nice pair of slacks.
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But never had I come across an entrepreneur as buttoned-down-boring as this one.
2
In the early '90s, he practiced corporate law for a buttoned-down firm in Manhattan.
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Very out of character for the buttoned-down executive with whom she had been working.
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Altun's was grey, and the shirt had a buttoned-down collar.
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Welch's tenure has coincided with the transformation of C.E.O.s from buttoned-down bureaucrats into cultural celebrities.
Usage of conservative in English
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Aigner's southern conservative party CSU has long held power in the state.
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Thus he must find a way to talk sense into conservative hard-liners.
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However, the conservative website Baztab-e-Emrooz reported a different version of the events.
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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus did not vote for it.
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Why do even conservative citizens of these countries want universal health care?
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Greece's pro-bailout conservative New Democracy party is leading in the country's election.
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Managing director John Penno said the company had taken a conservative view.
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However, conservative medical approaches to this end have met with limited success.
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The conservative government says it is committed to making major budget cuts.
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The conservative justices have tended to defend traditional areas of state control.
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Representative Matt Gaetz asked Facebook's Zuckerberg whether content moderators disadvantaged conservative content.
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I said I would not accept such recognition from a conservative Government.
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It was repealed in 2013 when the current conservative government took power.
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The Tea Party is a conservative political movement pressing for smaller government.
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The result is that French banks have stayed conservative on their outlook.
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The Christian literal movement is, of course, famous for its conservative politics.
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Conservative through the time
Conservative across language varieties
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United States of America
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Australia
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