Farmer-Labor Party
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- proper noun
- US
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Partido Farmer-Labor
- The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party was established to advocate for the rights of both farmers and laborers.
- Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
- Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Examples
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BTW, for those outside of Minnesota, DFL stands for Democrat-Farmer-Labor party.
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I am from MN, active for years in the Democratic Farmer Labor Party as it is known here.
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Sorensen, editor and proprietor of Bluestem Prairie, served as a New Media training and strategy consultant for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from October 2009 through mid-April 2010.
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(One of the biggest cases is the leftist Farmer-Labor Party, a Minnesota-only institution that dominated Minnesota politics for a while in the 1930s, before disappearing in the '40s into a merger with the Democrats.)
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Many progressive policies were championed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party during its active years in the 20th century.
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The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party played a significant role in shaping labor laws in Minnesota.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Farmer-Labor + party
The name transparently combines the nouns 'farmer' and 'labor' with 'party' to denote a political party representing farmers and workers, so a B1 learner who knows those constituent words can readily infer this core meaning. The hyphenation simply links the two social groups and does not introduce idiomatic or metaphorical meaning. Historical specifics (that it was a former minor US party in the early 20th century) are extra information but do not affect the compositionality of the label.
Etymology
Farmer-Labor Party comes from when farmers and laborers joined to form a political party to protect their jobs and land. So the name meant 'a party for farmers and workers'.