middle-of-the-roadismn.
/ˌmɪdl̩ə(v)ðəˈrəʊdɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪdələ(v)ðəˈroʊdˌɪz(ə)m/ Originally U.S.
Advocacy of a middle-of-the-road policy.
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1900 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 13 July 4/5 His [sc. a politician's] honest feelings got the better of his devotion to middle-of-the-roadism.
1953 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 59 172 By absence of bias the author seems to mean a peculiar kind of middle-of-the-roadism.
1992 Newsweek 20 Jan. 37/1 Clinton's regional pedigree and energetic middle-of-the-roadism may be the only bet for neutralizing George Bush in the Electoral College.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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