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- n an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution
- n a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs
- n a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
- Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba.