libertarian
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- noun
- /ˌlɪbərˈtɛriən/
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libertario
- During the debate, he identified himself as a libertarian who believes in individual freedom and personal responsibility.
- libertarians support
- libertarian principles
- libertarian economics
It was the most, the biggest lecture read by a libertarian in the world.
- It was the most, the biggest lecture read by a libertarian in the world.
- Now TK is our our resident free market libertarian here.
- They finally elected a true free market libertarian.
- Those of you who think of yourselves as libertarians, small government, Republican types, please raise your hands.
- I've talked before about these kind of utopian libertarians where, you know, we have, we don't have police.
- They think that libertarian is the appropriate tag.
- I cared about more issues than the narrow set of issues that libertarians care about, right?
- You know, it's one of these things where don't tell the libertarian they're going to run nuts with that.
- You know, we, we like this as libertarians.
Examples
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I'm a libertarian.
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As a true libertarian, she advocates for minimal government intervention in people's personal lives.
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You end up with a very interesting sort of left libertarian political culture.
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So what if I am a libertarian?
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Not even the biggest civil libertarian.
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Those of you who think of yourselves as libertarians, small government, Republican types, please raise your hands.
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Taking up this overlooked perspective, this article uncovers a new speech theory: the libertarian tradition.
Academic text (2017) -
I'm actually a Libertarian.
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Democrat, Republican and Libertarian.
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So in respect of morals, the libertarian, just like the left-liberal, believed in unrestricted negative liberty.
Academic text (1999)
Antonyms
Compounds
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A person who supports strong personal rights and wants the government to not interfere in private choices
A person who wants people to have as much economic freedom as possible and little government control
How Libertarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Libertarian comes from the Latin libertas 'freedom' and the ending -arian 'a person who believes in', the same idea you see in vegetarian. So, a libertarian in politics is someone who wants more personal freedom and less government control.