Lib-Demn.
/ˌlɪbˈdɛm/, U.S. /ˈlɪbˈdɛm/ British Politics.
= Liberal Democrat n..
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parliamentary party1906
Lib-Dem1989
1989 Times 17 Oct. 10/8 The new party wants Liberal Democrats to be used as the popular title and in spoken reporting, with Lib Dem as the accepted abbreviation.
1995 Guardian 23 Sept. (Outlook section) 24/2 Labour's outlook is statist, centralist, not unlike the Tories, where the Lib Dems' is instinctively federalist, devolutionary.
2001 K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 30 The guy's been a breath of fresh air for Liverpool since the Lib-Dems got in, and this man has helped green-light some of the most imaginative and progressive regeneration schemes in town.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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