(~led)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Rebels are people who are fighting against their own country’s army in order to change the political system there.
...fighting between ~s and government forces.
...~ forces in Liberia.
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2.
Politicians who oppose some of their own party’s policies can be referred to as ~s.
The ~s want another 1% cut in interest rates.
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3.
If politicians ~ against one of their own party’s policies, they show that they oppose it.
More than forty Conservative MPs ~led against the government and voted against the bill.
...MPs planning to ~ over the proposed welfare cuts...
VERB: V against n, V
4.
You can say that someone is a ~ if you think that they behave differently from other people and have rejected the values of society or of their parents.
She had been a ~ at school.
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5.
When someone ~s, they start to behave differently from other people and reject the values of society or of their parents.
The child who ~s is unlikely to be overlooked...
I was very young and ~ling against everything.
VERB: V, V against n