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Left Behind en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.
    • The New Elite and the Left Behinds are not necessarily synonymous with other pairs in confrontation: liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, upper-middle class and lower-middle class. 2004, David Lebedoff, The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, →ISBN:
    • Two major political issues originally split the New Elite from the Left Behinds: the civil rights movement and the peace movement arising out of the Vietnam War. 2011, Gary Jason, Dangerous Thoughts, →ISBN:
    • For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare. 1983, David Lebedoff, The New Elite: The Death of Democracy, →ISBN, page 31:

Forms

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Left Behinds Number=Plur lexicographic
left-behind alternative lexicographic