old-line
7
7.2
- adjective
- /ˈoʊldˌlaɪn/
- US
- I'm an old-line Republican who has had enough.
- old-line companies
- old-line firms
- old-line families
Examples
-
The old-line heavy equipment manufacturer had begun to diversify, and electronics and computer software had become more important to its business.
Academic text (2004) -
The replacement of old-line managers has resulted in a loss of emergency response knowledge, equipment, and motivation.
Academic text (1995) -
Your fears are so typical of the old-line Party men, Graf.
-
"It shows that an old-line American manufacturing company can transform itself," Holstein said.
Academic text (2011) -
That does not mean that old-line churches are not important or worthy of balanced, nuanced coverage.
Blog text (4) -
In the "good ole days," the old-line industrialists would be the establishment counterweight to Wall Street.
Blog text (4) -
The old-line Luanda families had been economically and socially marginalized by increased white migration to the capital beginning in the 1920s.
Academic text (2004) -
After graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law, he was offered a job at the law firm of Bouhan, Williams & Levy, probably the best-known of Savannah's old-line firms.
Academic text (1996) -
Democrats wielded similar advantages until the 1980s, when the South underwent party realignment after President Ronald Reagan's election, with many old-line Democrats jumping to the Republican Party.
Academic text (2011) -
Many of the companies are old-line manufacturing firms that have hit hard times.
Synonyms
∞
4.6
Does not want big changes and likes traditional values
979
1.5
Following long-held customs and ways of doing things
365
4.7
Not in style, like clothes or ideas from an earlier time
40
4.2
Very old and present for a long time
25
7.9
Very unwilling to accept change or new ideas
5
6.5
Holding strongly to old customs and resisting change
1
7.7
Not willing to accept new ideas and slow to change
1
6.9
Being loyal to old customs and beliefs in religion and culture
1
7.9
Part of a family or company that has been around for a long time and keeps old ways
1
9.1
Very old-fashioned and against change
Antonyms
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Old-line comes from old and line, where line means a 'family line' or a long 'series' of people and ways. So an old-line family, company, or party is one with long traditions and that is slow to change.