Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which liberalizes, or makes liberal. Also spelled
liberaliser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, liberalizes.
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- noun One who, or that which,
liberalizes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet the untold story of his new government is that it may soon become Europe's star economic liberalizer.
Ukraine's Economic Revolution Fredrik Erixon 2010
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Jordan's Abdullah is a monarch, but he is a genuine liberalizer; his opponents in Parliament are elected but reactionaries.
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Mr. Dung has strong credentials as an economic liberalizer.
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He was a liberalizer, a continuer of the Khrushchev tradition of opening the system bit by bit.
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Voltaire might freely be lauded as on the whole a mighty and a beneficent liberalizer of thought.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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America, the liberalizer, has touched the worthy Struthers with her wand of democracy and transformed her from a silent machine of service into a Vesuvian female with a mind and
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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The speakers were acceptable because they were liberal, and he was the great liberalizer.
From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858
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The last, by endowing Value with the gift of fern seed and enabling it to walk invisible, turned the flank of the baronial tariff-system and made the roads safe for the great liberalizer Commerce.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Colonel Qaddafi has long ruled through a phalanx of thuggish dauphins, each playing a different role - one the totalitarian enforcer, another, the pro-Western liberalizer - and each vying for the succession.
NYT > Home Page By SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 2011
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