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CIVIL-LIBERTARIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does civil-libertarian mean?
• CIVIL-LIBERTARIAN (adjective)
The adjective CIVIL-LIBERTARIAN has 1 sense:
1. having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law
Familiarity information: CIVIL-LIBERTARIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CIVIL-LIBERTARIAN (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law
Similar:
liberal (tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition)
Derivation:
civil liberty (fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference)
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