Labourist
(ˈleɪbərɪst)
[f. labour n. 2 b + -ist.]
A supporter of the interests of Labour in politics; an advocate of Labourism.
| 1903 Handy Notes for Unionist Workers Aug. 3 The Labourists in Parliament..number over a dozen. 1910 Daily Chron. 2 Feb. 1/7 Liberals, Labourists and Nationalists are solid against the veto of the Lords and against Food-Taxes. 1927 Observer 5 June 12/3 Six months ago the five seats concerned were represented by two Conservatives, two Labourists, and one Liberal. 1969 Guardian 23 June 4/2 An ideological struggle [in the U.S.] between the Labourists, who favour Maoism..and the new Leftists. |
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Add: Also labo(u)rist. B. adj. Of or pertaining to the interests of Labour; emphasizing working-class solidarity through the trade-union movement rather than ideological socialism.
| 1920 H. H. Henson Jrnl. 26 July in Retrospect (1943) II. i. 14 The Report and resolutions were, of course, strongly ‘Labourist’. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology i. 25 Both Romantic and labourist ideologies are in partial conflict with bourgeois hegemony. 1985 New Statesman 27 Sept. 12/2 It is not only organisations with a Labourist tradition and manual background that have gladdened hearts at Walworth Road. |
Hence labouˈristic a. (rare).
| 1932 H. R. Spencer Govt. & Politics Italy xxiii. 261 This Chamber of Deputies..had turned out to be..much more Fascist than laboristic. |