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Definition of Middle of the roader
1. Noun. A person who takes a position in the political center.
Group relationships: Center
Generic synonyms: Adult, Grownup
Derivative terms: Centrism, Centrist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Of The Roader
Literary usage of Middle of the roader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"IV General Avila Camacho can be qualified as a safe and sound 'middle- of-the-roader,'
in terms of the current political situation. ..."
2. New England Methodism: The Story of the New England Convention of Methodist by E C E Dorion (1915)
"... to the middle of the highway, and was therefore the first "middle-of-the-roader."
Thus Methodism came into New England by the right of eminent domain! ..."
3. Who's who in America by Albert Nelson Marquis (1899)
"... People's Party Nat. conventions, 1892 and 1896; in latter was "middle of the
roader;" after fusion joined Socialist Labor Party. Has lived in Calif, ..."
4. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1920)
"... and it is to be most sincerely hoped that Prohibition Commissioner Kramer will
prove to be a middle-of-the-roader, for too rough a policy will throw ..."
5. Inquiry Into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo by United States Congress. Senate. Select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo. [from old catalog] (1921)
"I was a kind of middle-of the-roader in those lines. Mr. ANGELL. What have you
in mind when you say some of them thought they ought to go a little stronger? ..."
6. U.S.-Japan Strategic Reciprocity: A Neo-Internationalist View by Edward A. Olsen (1985)
"... on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor) that the revision would be revised once
more;103 he thus remained true to form as a middle-of-the-roader. ..."
7. Debate Between Prof. E.R.A. Seligman, Affirmative ... and Prof. Scott by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Scott Nearing (1921)
"But I suppose I was chosen for this sporting event because I am a middle-of-the-roader
between the two. I am not a Socialist, and yet I am not one who ..."
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