Crossword clues for centrist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, from French centriste, from centre (see center (n.)). Originally in English with reference to French politics; general application to other political situations is from 1890.\n\nWhere M. St. Hilaire is seen to most advantage, however, is when quietly nursing one of that weak-kneed congregation who sit in the middle of the House, and call themselves "Centrists." A French Centrist is
--exceptis eoccipiendis
--a man who has never been able to make up his mind, nor is likely to.
["Men of the Third Republic," London, 1873]
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism. n. A person who advocates centrism.
WordNet
adj. supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative [syn: middle-of-the-road]
n. a person who takes a position in the political center [syn: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist]
Usage examples of "centrist".
But the danger also existed of bringing into the new International reformist and centrist leaders who were attempting to keep a firm grip on their radicalised rank and file.
Especially those warmongering imperialists in the Centrist and Crown Loyalist crowds.
It is ironic that individuals like Eduard Bernstein had moved to the left during the war and ended up in the centrist USPD.
He was a typical centrist, Marxist in words and phrases but reformist in deeds.
It became a classical centrist party, wavering between the ideas of Marxism and reformism.
What is of key importance is the direction in which the centrist party is developing.
My own take on the matter was that my heavy hint to Grigory the previous day had led him to believe that Jadey was being held as a bargaining-chip by the Reform faction, and that releasing her would help his cause -- that of the straight-down-the-middle centrist faction, conservative but not outright reactionary like the militarist hard-liners.
The Centrists and Right Moderates were trying the appeal-to-reason approach.
The Expansionist coalition held firm, the Abolitionists were in retreat and Corain and the Centrists had lost ground, losing Gorodin to the Expansionist camp where he had always belonged, but Nasir Harad, damn him, snuggled close to Gorodin, the source of the fat Defense contracts for his station, and State and Defense and Information were the coalition within the Expansionist coalition—the secret bedfellows.
But there were just enough of them in the other parties or among the Independents—even two among the Centrists, I'm sorry to say—for the apologists to argue that 'everyone did it' and keep any one party from being singled out for blame.
In fact, it had been extremely dangerous, because although there'd been one or two names from the Centrists and a single Crown Loyalist in the files Montaigne and her common-born lover had turned over, there'd been many more Conservatives and Progressives.
They differed intensely on what those goals should be, but both were perfectly prepared to embrace a degree of intrusiveness into public policy and private lives (or, at least, other people's private lives) which Alexander's Centrists would bitterly have opposed .
Conditions were still far from ripe for the carefully timed election he intended to call, and it was unlikely anything could cut deeply enough into their support to deprive the Centrists of their position as the single largest party in the Commons.
Especially if the Centrists decide to look for common ground with you.
Many of her readers weren't Liberals—indeed, a fair percentage were actually Centrists, who read her columns or watched her on HD because she seemed reassuring evidence that even someone one disagreed with politically could have a brain.