SOCIALIST


Meaning of SOCIALIST in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a capitalist/socialist economy (= based on a capitalist or socialist political system )

the large capitalist economies of western Europe

a communist/socialist state

The former communist states began opening up their markets to foreign investment.

a democratic/socialist/communist experiment (= one in which a country tries a new political system )

He went to Havana to judge for himself the success or failure of the socialist experiment.

socialist principles

Would he stick to his socialist principles after being elected Prime Minister?

socialist/democratic/liberal ideals

He is committed to democratic ideals such as majority rule.

the Conservative/Liberal Democrat/Socialist etc leader (= leader of a political party )

the Conservative leader, David Cameron

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

country

Political report: The socialist countries faced a profound crisis, both theoretically and practically.

In the 1980s Amnesty International reports listed several Arab socialist countries as sites of torture and killing.

It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.

A different conception of collective bargaining in terms both of its character and role is applicable in socialist countries with centrally-planned economies.

culture

In this hostile ideological jungle, little clearings of socialist culture had to be created painfully.

A wide variety of cultural trends would coexist, and a socialist culture and personality would develop.

economy

It focuses on non-price causes of shortage reproduction in the socialist economy .

An inefficient socialist economy and thirty years of increasingly corrupt one-party rule have made their contributions.

The government is only cautiously expanding the limited free-market alterations of its socialist economy begun four years ago.

government

But is it a socialist government ?

But what socialist governments , in which countries, had ever worked?

The socialist government feared a loss of government to the C.N.T. unless they held out a revolutionary future to the social masses.

President Alan Garcia's socialist government that took office in July 1985 has taken a tolerant view of the informal sector.

idea

Catering for more than 100,000 students a year, the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas .

ideal

Is it realising the socialist ideals that we stood for?

leader

And it was those of liberal and moderate socialist leaders , men like Miliukov and Kerensky, which exerted greatest influence.

And it was from their number that the most prominent socialist leaders of 1917 were drawn.

movement

It took the rise of the socialist movement to turn the tide.

After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 her commitment to the international socialist movement intensified.

Such incidents were symptomatic of tensions within the socialist movement that were to have long-term consequences.

party

His proposal that a new socialist party should rise from the ashes of the present one was hardly disputed.

Hashimoto finally settled on Wataru Kubo of the steadily disintegrating socialist party .

Such behaviour is not suited to a democratic socialist party of the 1990s.

Even if workers could solve their collective action problems and unite behind a socialist party , their electoral muscle would be insufficient.

A socialist party supports government provision; a big business party opposes taxation.

The socialist parties played a peripheral role in the revolution of 1905.

The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies, the worse they have suffered.

De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party .

policy

If you want to campaign for socialist policies against this government, join the Labour party.

The Left-wing of the party continued to fight for the adoption of socialist policies .

principle

The chairman's tact prevented the nearly explicit discussion of socialist principle from becoming more so.

regime

Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime .

revolution

The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere.

Thus democracy is not a regime that remains self-sufficient for decades but is only a direct prelude to the socialist revolution .

The construction of the party was an essential condition for the victory of the socialist revolution .

They believe that if socialist revolution has not arrived today, it will come tomorrow.

Britain in the throes of a socialist revolution ?

More radical sections of the educated élite looked beyond liberal and constitutional reform to socialist revolution .

society

In any socialist society , competition is absent and, because it is absent, services are usually non-existent.

The three largest unions are refusing to vote for his compromise which would let whites belong to a black socialist society .

In a socialist society , it was asked, were such gross disparities and inequalities permissible?

Unlike affiliated unions or socialist societies they had no collective voice but were regarded as subsidiary units.

state

The socialist state nationalised film and gave film-makers much better potential opportunities.

While the policies in a socialist state attempt to reduce inequalities significantly, they do not aim for total economic equality.

They intend to build a socialist state , and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible.

The only form of constitutional arrangements which socialist states took seriously after 1917 were formulas for national federation and autonomy.

A socialist state was proclaimed one year later.

system

We provided a socialist system of education.

The socialist system was my hope.

Many students had strayed from the socialist path and needed to be reminded of the superiority of the socialist system .

It is at the heart such a socialist system .

They would disembark merrily with renewed faith in the Soviet socialist system , although having no real knowledge of it.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A wide variety of cultural trends would coexist, and a socialist culture and personality would develop.

His proposal that a new socialist party should rise from the ashes of the present one was hardly disputed.

Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.

It seemed a strange place for a red-bearded revolutionary socialist to live.

It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.

On the other is a toppled colossus painfully constructing a market economy out of the wreckage of a socialist one.

The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere.

Whether a capitalist or socialist approach to development is adopted, it must be development with a human face.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Even the devout socialists of Alcove 1 believed in the free market of abilities.

He lived in poverty and became a socialist .

Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.

The plans are opposed by most political parties, with the exception of the ruling socialists.

Throughout the country the progressive spirit had elected more than five hundred socialists to various public offices in 1910 and 1911.

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