LABOR PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does labor party mean? 

• LABOR PARTY (noun)
  The noun LABOR PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people

  Familiarity information: LABOR PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABOR PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

labor party; labour party

Hypernyms ("labor party" is a kind of...):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labor party"):

Australian Labor Party (the oldest political party in Australia, founded in 1891; the party is moderately liberal)

British Labour Party; Labor; Labour; Labour Party (a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries)

 Context examples 

They appreciated or sneered at the morning editorials, jumped from labor conditions in New Zealand to Henry James and Brander Matthews, passed on to the German designs in the Far East and the economic aspect of the Yellow Peril, wrangled over the German elections and Bebel's last speech, and settled down to local politics, the latest plans and scandals in the union labor party administration, and the wires that were pulled to bring about the Coast Seamen's strike.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)