MANIFESTO


Meaning of MANIFESTO in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an election/campaign/manifesto pledge

The governor had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

conservative

I have searched through the last Conservative party manifesto .

The Conservative Party manifesto for the 1987 General Election returned to the issue.

It is hard to tell what these powers might be from the 1992 Conservative manifesto , a model of vagueness.

labour

The Labour manifesto includes a commitment to introduce a return-to-learn entitlement.

The plan for a £3.40 minimum hourly rate of pay is a key part of the Labour party's manifesto .

The famously awful Labour manifesto of 1983 had at least a certain integrity.

Indeed, the Labour manifesto is a blueprint for precisely that.

But the fact remains that the Labour Party manifesto of 1945 contained nothing about New Towns.

tory

As the Tory manifesto boasts, there are 18 mini-charters, covering health, public transport, education, local government and so on.

Businessman Philip Goldenberg on the Tory election manifesto .

■ NOUN

election

It could make that the central point of its election manifesto if it is so profoundly excited by it.

Rutelli's election manifesto has just been published.

The response of the House of Lords to the argument based upon the election manifesto is, in many ways, incontrovertible.

Managers would prepare a five-year plan for the firm, a sort of election manifesto .

This approach was very much at the heart of Labour's 1983 election manifesto .

Should voters behave in this fashion, the contents of the Opposition's election manifesto become less significant in deciding the result.

Labour's election manifesto promises to provide more beds.

Businessman Philip Goldenberg on the Tory election manifesto .

■ VERB

publish

Filippo Marinetti published the first manifesto on futurist painting before any significant body of work had been produced.

write

Nkrumah was able to write the party manifesto on his borrowed toilet paper, and smuggle other messages out of prison.

Brooks wrote in a manifesto in 1985.

A couple of years ago May wrote a manifesto to alert the world to the advent of widespread encryption.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Communist manifesto

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the Tory manifesto boasts, there are 18 mini-charters, covering health, public transport, education, local government and so on.

It's not in their manifesto .

The manifesto for the 1982 Assembly elections has fifteen paragraphs.

To have our position explained and clearly stated in the form of a manifesto would be very good indeed.

Two weeks before the deadline, the Conservatives published their manifesto .

Was it a Government commitment which was part of their manifesto ?

What part of the 1987 manifesto is still in place?

Will the Government endorse that manifesto ?

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