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Meanings of left-winger in English

Portuguese
esquerdista
Spanish
colectivista

A person who belongs to the political left.

esquerdista
Synonyms
Examples for "leftist"
Examples for "leftist"
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Last year, the leftist government nationalized the country's largest private electricity company.
Reuters
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Argentina, which recently elected a leftist government, also condemned the day's events.
Reuters
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A Ponta win would consolidate his leftist Social Democrats' hold on power.
Reuters
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Some on the left genuinely thought he would deliver a leftist programme.
A journey: my political life
5
Bomb attacks by Kurdish, leftist and Islamist militants are common in Turkey.
The Guardian
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Yet Britain is instinctively collectivist, enveloped in prejudice, religion, taboo and prohibition.
The Guardian
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Arthur had already shrugged off the collectivist values of the postwar years.
The Guardian
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In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the collective'.
The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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He purposely chooses collectivist and plural language to provoke racial hatred against minorities.
The South African
5
He's got even less use for collectivist theory than his white brother has.
In the Land of Jim Crow
Usage of left-winger in English
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Sterling has gone from scattergun left-winger to fluid and adaptable world-class forward.
The Guardian
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Fellow left-winger Alexis Corbiere called it a headlong chase after Le Pen.
Reuters
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Flynn is a left-winger, and a paid-up member of the awkward squad.
The Guardian
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The left-winger scored his first NHL goal in Tuesday's overtime victory over Buffalo.
Reuters
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Had he become a left-winger simply to avoid being a bore like his dad?
The last testament
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Disrupted by injuries, the left-winger found the net only once at Bradford last season.
The Guardian
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They flooded midfield with players and paid particular attention to Cork's elusive left-winger Liam Kearney.
The Irish Times
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The Chelsea goalkeeper and Reading's 25-year-old left-winger collided in the first minute of Saturday's match.
The Guardian
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He started as a left-winger but, like Thierry Henry, is as effective through the middle.
The Guardian
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The Chelsea goalkeeper and Reading's 25-year-old Irish left-winger collided in the first minute of the match.
The Irish Times
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John McDonnell, another veteran left-winger, is widely tipped to be offered the post of shadow chancellor.
The Guardian
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Opinion polls suggest left-winger Mr Corbyn is leading the race, with the result due on September 12th.
The Irish Times
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Damien Duff, so skilful and exciting, and already on course to be next season's best Premiership left-winger.
The Guardian
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Mindful that Hollande may soon be his new star character, Plantu is focusing more on the left-winger.
Reuters
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Middlesbrough's improvisational left-winger has the coveted knack of salvaging seemingly lost causes by creating or scoring goals.
The Irish Times
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All well and good, except that Oblitas was a left-winger, and Buchan was being posted at left-back.
The Guardian
Translations for left-winger
Portuguese
esquerdista