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soft-liner en · NOUN

Etymology

From soft + line + -er, modelled on hard-liner.

Meanings

1. (rare) A person who holds a moderate position and may be willing to compromise, as opposed to a hard-liner.
   • At this node the soft-liners must decide whether to do nothing and stick with the status quo or to open up the political regime. 2012, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona Nadenichek Golder, Principles of Comparative Politics, page 299:
   • […] a realistic deal between “hard liners” and “soft liners” that would result in a sort of limited and explicit “partial-inclusion pact” […] 2016, Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi, Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim Civilisation, page 222:

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