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Collocations for liberal - noun

ADJECTIVE

leading
bourgeois, middle-class
classical, old-fashioned, traditional
radical
market
economic, political, religious, social
white
bleeding-heart
limousine (= a rich person who expresses concern for poor people, but does nothing to help them)

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Collocations for liberal - adj.

1. respecting other opinions

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
His attitudes are fairly liberal.
remarkably
relatively
socially

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2. in politics

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

comparatively, relatively
comparatively liberal in trade matters
broadly, essentially
a broadly liberal set of policies
politically

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PREPOSITION

on
He is relatively liberal on social issues.

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3. generous

VERBS

be
become

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ADVERB

fairly, very
Add a fairly liberal amount of olive oil to the pasta.

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PREPOSITION

with
She's very liberal with her advice!

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Liberal is used with these nouns:
agenda, art, attitude, bias, capitalism, Catholicism, cause, Christian, coalition, commentator, conception, Congressman, Congresswoman, consensus, democracy, economics, economist, economy, education, elite, establishment, faction, feminism, feminist, guilt, hand, ideal, ideology, interpretation, judge, law, media, nationalist, newspaper, orthodoxy, party, philosophy, point of view, politician, politics, press, reform, regime, scholar, senator, slant, socialist, society, support, theology, thinker, thought, tradition, use, value, view, viewpoint, wing

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