"left-behind" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "left-behinds",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "Left Behind"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Helena Barolini, Umbertina: A Novel",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas S. Langner, Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, page 111",
          "text": "Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Left Behind"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Dolores Knowles, Musings, page 119",
          "text": "First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bagels with the Bards #9, page 34",
          "text": "One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An item that was left behind when someone departed."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "leave behind"
        ],
        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "left-behind"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "left-behinds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "Left Behind"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Helena Barolini, Umbertina: A Novel",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Thomas S. Langner, Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, page 111",
          "text": "Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Left Behind"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Dolores Knowles, Musings, page 119",
          "text": "First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bagels with the Bards #9, page 34",
          "text": "One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An item that was left behind when someone departed."
      ],
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        ],
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          "depart"
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  "word": "left-behind"
}