labourite

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English

Etymology

From labour +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

Noun

labourite (plural labourites)

  1. (historical) A person involved in the labour movement.
    • 2010, Billy Frank, ‎Craig Horner, ‎David Stewart, The British Labour Movement and Imperialism (page 63)
      For many British, as well as Australian socialists and labourites, the labour movement had a special duty to appropriate, restore and develop the "true" patriotism of "the education and uplifting of England herself as a nation", of democratic advance, of "a love of freedom",