"left-behind" meaning in All languages combined

See left-behind on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: left-behinds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} left-behind (plural left-behinds)
  1. Alternative form of Left Behind Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Left Behind
    Sense id: en-left-behind-en-noun-IpO~~-AD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 22
  2. An item that was left behind when someone departed.
    Sense id: en-left-behind-en-noun-BiOe6cQ7

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1998, Helena Barolini, Umbertina: A Novel, →ISBN:",
          "text": "At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge the winners.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas S. Langner, Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, →ISBN, page 111:",
          "text": "Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.",
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          "ref": "2012, Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Breakfast when they return is at the little kitchen table where Max has eaten thousands of meals, and every morning, without fail, the old man slides a ripped-off chunk of toast and a piece of banana to the dog at his feet, precisely the behavior experts at Guiding Eyes for the Blind had warned against because it can turn a service dog into a food hound who noses along restaurant tabletops in search of left-behinds.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2014, Dolores Knowles, Musings, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.",
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          "ref": "2014, Bagels with the Bards #9, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.",
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          "ref": "1998, Helena Barolini, Umbertina: A Novel, →ISBN:",
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          "ref": "2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring, →ISBN:",
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          "ref": "2010, Thomas S. Langner, Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right.",
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