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Definition of Conservative party
1. Noun. A political party (especially in Great Britain or Australia) that believes in the importance of a capitalist economy with private ownership rather than state control.
Definition of Conservative party
1. Proper noun. (politics) Conservative Party ¹
2. Proper noun. (British) A political organisation that is said to be closely affiliated with the Church of England. ¹
3. Proper noun. (British) Any of a number of political parties of various nationalities, often opposed to labour parties. ¹
4. Proper noun. (politics) Conservative party ¹
5. Proper noun. (Canada politics) Diminutive of Progressive Conservative Party ¹
6. Proper noun. (Canada politics) Diminutive of Conservative Party of Canada ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conservative Party
Literary usage of Conservative party
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"The instinctive resistance of the conservative party permits examination,
discussion, putting to the proof. This delay is productive of more advantage than ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A defection from the conservative party, led by von Bethmann-Hollweg (grandfather
of the present Chancellor of Germany), was of little parliamentary ..."
3. Bismarck, the Man & the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck, Arthur John Butler (1899)
"If the conservative party, instead of breaking with me and attacking me with a
bitterness and fanaticism second to no party in the Opposition, had assisted ..."
4. Memoirs of an Ex-minister: An Autobiography by James Howard Harris Malmesbury (1885)
"I shall be very glad to meet Jolliffe ' there, and to talk over quietly with him
and you the position and prospects of the conservative party. ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"invaluable ally, and finally the leader, of the conservative party in the House
of Commons. ... conservative party ..."
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