left wing

1. 1.

   those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

   Synonymsleft

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Questions about left wing

What does left wing mean?

left wing means "those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare".

What is another word for left wing?

Close synonyms include left. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is left wing a common word?

left wing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.