left-behind

plural left-behinds

1. alternativeAlternative form of Left Behind.

   Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.

   2017, Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, →ISBN, page 111

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   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.

   1998, Helena Barolini, Umbertina: A Novel, →ISBN

   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.

   2004, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights, →ISBN

   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'.

   2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring, →ISBN

   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.

   2010, Thomas S. Langner, Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice, →ISBN

2. An item that was left behind when someone departed.

   First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.

   2014, Dolores Knowles, Musings, →ISBN, page 119

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   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.

   2012, Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart, →ISBN

   One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.

   2014, Bagels with the Bards #9, →ISBN, page 34