• Left-behind

    Full definition of left-behind

    Noun

    left-behind

    (plural left-behinds)
      • 1998 , Helena Barolini , Umbertina: A Novel , 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.
      • 2004 , Pradyumna P. Karan , The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights , 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.
      • 2005 , John Furnival , Children of the Second Spring , 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'.
      • 2010 , Thomas S. Langner , Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice , 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.
      • 2017, Edward Luce , The Retreat of Western Liberalism , Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.
    1. An item that was left behind when someone departed.
      • 2012 , , Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart , 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.
      • 2014, Dolores Knowles , Musings , First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.
      • 2014, , Bagels with the Bards #9 , One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.
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