liberal
/ˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹəl/ adjetivo B2En español: liberal
- Generous; permitting liberty; willing to give unsparingly. · He was liberal with his compliments.
- Ample, abundant; generous in quantity. · Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.
- Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive. · Her parents had liberal ideas about child-rearing.
- Pertaining to a type of education the purpose of which is to cultivate and develop wise, capable and well-rounded people who are thus free of mental constraint and hindrance.
- Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational/occupational, technical or mechanical training; usually found in the phrase "liberal arts". · He had a full education studying the liberal arts.
- Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical liberalism or "modern liberalism"/progressivism.
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The Standard commented upon the fact that lawless outrages of the sort usually occurred under a Liberal Administration.
Rachel Lynde, of course, being a Liberal, had no use for him.
Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantès proceeded to make his final adieus on board La Jeune Amélie, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.
But he is a liberal master, I suppose, and _that_, in the eye of a servant, comprehends every virtue.”
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