Look up: conservative

1. conservative
   [adj] - opposed to liberal reforms 2. [adj] - resistant to change 3. [n] - a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
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2. conservative
   a hypothesis test is conservative if the actual significance level for the test is smaller than the stated significance level of the test.An example is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distribution test,which becomes conservative when the parameters of the distribution are estimated from the data instead of b...
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3. Conservative
   Con·serv'a·tive adjective [ Confer French conservatif .] 1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. 2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to ch...
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4. Conservative
   Con·serv'a·tive noun 1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. « The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. Jer. Taylor. » 2...
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5. conservative
   To preserve) designed to preserve health, restore function and repair structures by nonradical methods, as conservative surgery. ... Origin: L. Conservare ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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6. conservative
   adjective opposed to liberal reforms
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7. conservative
   adjective resistant to change
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8. conservative
   conservativist noun a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
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9. conservative
   materialistic adjective conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; `a bourgeois mentality`
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10. Conservative
    • (a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. • (a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished...
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11. conservative
    (L. conservare to preserve) designed to preserve health, restore function, and repair structures by nonradical methods, as conservative surgery.
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12. Conservative
    [political party] This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article`s talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debat...
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13. conservative
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kon-ser′vă-tiv Definitions: 1. Denoting treatment by gradual, limited, or well-established procedures, as opposed to radical.
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14. Conservative
    Represented by the Republican party, or political Right. One who generally favors economic liberty, free markets, private property, privatization of business and lower taxes. They claim to want less, or limited Government. They respect the dignity of the individual, prefering personal freedoms ove...
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15. Conservative
    [language] In linguistics, a conservative form, variety, or modality is one that has changed relatively little over its history, or which is relatively resistant to change. It is the opposite of innovating forms or varieties, which have undergone relatively larger changes. A conservative lin...
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16. Conservative
    [United States] Contemporary engraving of Tiberio Fiorelli, 1608-94. ...
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