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middle-of-the-road
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
middle-of-the-road
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He made a direct appeal to middle-of-the-road voters.
▪ Wilson appealed to middle-of-the-road voters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both were too sensitive about the middle-of-the-road, liberal, humanitarian public.
▪ Now, their last record was very nice and all the rest but it's very middle-of-the-road stuff.
▪ The figures are relative to a middle-of-the-road estimate of the course of the economy during the next twenty years.
▪ The Independent has remained independent from political allegiances though it too favoured a middle-of-the-road political outcome in the 1987 election.
▪ The President's choice of a middle-of-the-road Republican with a strong record of educational reform received considerable bipartisan approval.
▪ We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion, middle-of-the-road revolution, cover-version original pop music.
▪ We should have had, at best, a continuous middle-of-the-road government which could never have taken radical reforming measures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
middle-of-the-road

middle-of-the-road \middle-of-the-road\ adj.

  1. supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative.

    Syn: centrist, moderate.

  2. not extreme, especially in political views. [WordNet 1.5] -- middle-of-the-roader, n. -- middle-of-the-roadism, n.

Wiktionary
middle-of-the-road

a. (alternative spelling of middle of the road English)

WordNet
middle-of-the-road

  1. adj. supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative [syn: centrist]

  2. not extreme, especially in political views

Usage examples of "middle-of-the-road".

German Republic was bereft of a middle-of-the-road political class, it also lacked that stability provided in many other countries by a truly conservative party.

I must confess that until recently the Den of Antiquity has housed an eclectic collection of middle-of-the-road items that date from the early eighteen hundreds through the Great Depression.