conservative

  1. Proper noun.  Conservative Party.
  2. Proper noun.  (politics) A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
  3. Proper noun.  (British, politics) A member of the Conservative party.
  4. Proper noun.  (Canada, politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors.
  5. Noun.  A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
  6. Noun.  (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
  7. Noun.  (US, politics) A political conservative.
  8. Noun.  (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
  9. Adjective.  Tending to resist change.
  10. Adjective.  Based on pessimistic assumptions.
  11. Adjective.  (US, economics) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
  12. Adjective.  (US, politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.
  13. Adjective.  (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
  14. Adjective.  (context, physics) (notcomp) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

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