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red-bait en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of redbait.
    alt of redbait
    • At the same time, red-baiting anyone who questions any aspect of free-market dogma has been standard right-wing operating procedure ever since the likes of William F. Buckley tried to block the teaching of Keynesian economics, not by showing that it was wrong, but by denouncing it as “collectivist.” 2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

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red-baiting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
red-baited Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
red-baited Tense=Past lexicographic
red-baits Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic