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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
right-wing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a left-wing/right-wing etc coalition
▪ The left-wing coalition was led by the former guerrilla movement.
a left-wing/right-wing government
▪ The new left-wing government restructured the economy.
a left-wing/right-wing politician
▪ He had been under attack from right-wing politicians for some time.
a right-wing/left-wing party
▪ Support for the right-wing parties was strongest among young working-class men.
right-wing/left-wing
▪ the students’ extreme left-wing views
right-wing/liberal/economic etc think tank
▪ a leading member of a Tory think tank
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
extremist
▪ Even more widespread demonstrations took place when Dutschke was shot and wounded by a right-wing extremist in April 1968.
▪ President Vinicio Cerezo has blamed the killings on right-wing extremists trying to destabilise his government.
▪ In March he was shot and seriously injured by a right-wing extremist.
▪ On Aug. 25, after a football match, right-wing extremists stormed the home and set the ground floor ablaze.
government
▪ Left-wing incumbents are expected to adopt high-inflation, low-unemployment positions and right-wing governments the reverse.
▪ Radicalism from a right-wing government spawned radicalism in its opponents.
▪ It was noted that the Hibbs contribution suggested that right-wing governments tended to see inflation as more of a problem than unemployment.
group
▪ During the year there were over 20 political killings by left- and right-wing groups.
▪ And a growing number of right-wing groups had decided to shore up their opposition with physical violence.
▪ Extreme right-wing groups offered support in exchange for the release of imprisoned right-winger, General Salan.
militia
▪ Such resistance has, curiously, made Koresh a hero and martyr among some conservatives and right-wing militia groups.
▪ A combination of pressure from civil libertarians and right-wing militias, interesting left-right jabs....
party
▪ Apart, Inkatha and the Afrikaner right-wing parties represent significant but relatively small groups.
▪ Support for the extreme right-wing parties was strongest among city-dwelling, working-class men under 30.
▪ In the past the National Front has sometimes managed to enter into local pacts with the two mainstream right-wing parties.
▪ Extreme right-wing parties scored more pronounced successes.
▪ Status: International grouping of conservative and right-wing parties.
▪ He also held out the possibility of including right-wing parties in his coalition, in return for their support for Labour policy.
▪ As a result, the mainstream right-wing parties have been hit hard.
press
▪ An adoring right-wing press gave him his platform to denounce 15,000 teachers as incompetent.
▪ Woodhead played well to the right-wing press.
republican
▪ Boxer, a renowned liberal, defeated right-wing Republican Bruce Herschensohn in a campaign noted for its level of personal invective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a right-wing conservative MP
▪ a right-wing fund raising group
▪ He is known for his extreme right-wing views.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Is he a Trotskyite or a right-wing mole?
▪ McLamb and Gritz, a former Green Beret, long have been leaders in the right-wing patriot movement.
▪ The right-wing populist Progress Party is the only one of the eight parliamentary parties opposed to the treaty.
▪ The aim was to attract intelligent revolutionaries disgusted by the ramshackle right-wing local Labour Party and the once influential Communist Party.
Wiktionary
right-wing

a. (context politics English) conservative, traditional and/or reactionary

WordNet
right-wing

adj. believing in or supporting tenets of the political right [syn: rightist]

Usage examples of "right-wing".

Fucking right-wing absurdist theater with its black-robed critic perched up high on the bench.

Around the time of the proceedings, both parts of the now united Germany were experiencing a series of right-wing extremist criminal acts, among them the attempted killing of a Hungarian in Potsdam with baseball bats and the beating of a retiree in Bochum that led to his death.

The Church is supposed only to interest itself in Propaganda Fidei, and all this talk of left-wing and right-wing leaves me cold.

The four hundred ninety-nine volumes preceding it had been given away to Klansmen, defrocked ministers, congressmen, mayors, governors, shriners, a hundred right-wing organizations, and anyone else he thought would be interested.

Liberals, Social Democrats, right-wing Labourites and left-of-centre Tories.

Several of the signatories to this document had joined with neoconservative and other right-wing Republican commentators in supporting the Iraq War.

When the coup failed, the press blamed John Ellis and right-wing bias in the media.

In the last five months of 1947, 74,000 tons of military equipment were sent by the United States to the right-wing government in Athens, including artillery, dive bombers, and stocks of napalm.

By the fall of 1991, Reagan and Bush had filled more than half of the 837 federal judgeships, and appointed enough right-wing justices to transform the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, two other justices with extremist right-wing viewpoints found themselves with a conflict of interest.

The Top Ten was loaded with raghead terrorists, right-wing political kooks, and drug addicts who had murdered police officers.

The right-wing papers make much play with our bombing raids on Germany and suggest that we can tie down a million troops along the coast of Europe by continuous commando raids.

American system, protecting corporate wealth and power, maintaining a huge military machine that drained the national wealth, allying the United States with right-wing tyrannies abroad.

Trouin, an authentic businessman with right-wing politics, whose Algerian imports were folding.

He moved and worked strictly as an apolitical businessman, which factor made him automatically suspect in the eyes of the more extreme factions of both left-wing and right-wing governments and movements.