neoconservative

[ nee-oh-kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv ]

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adjective

being or relating to a faction of the conservative political movement that heavily supports the promotion of democracy abroad through military intervention:
Neoconservative pundits have heavily supported the bill.

noun

a person who is politically conservative and heavily supports the promotion of democracy abroad through military intervention:
He's a longstanding neoconservative whose political columns have been highly influential.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of neoconservative¹

First recorded in 1880–85; neo- ( def ) + conservative ( def )

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That was the muscular foreign policy promoted by the cold warriors and neoconservatives.

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He later served as vice chairman for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based neoconservative think tank.

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Disagreements between the self-fashioned libertarians, neoconservatives and nationalists previewed the factions vying for power within the Republican Party, factions which stand to come to the forefront in his next term.

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Brooks agreed with me about that much, even though he was writing for the neoconservative Weekly Standard magazine and I for the democratic-socialist magazine Dissent.

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For some observers, his rhetoric carried uncomfortable echoes of the case made by American neoconservatives in the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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