Old-line

Quick meaning: Old-line is an adjective meaning Reactionary or conservative.

Meaning

Reactionary or conservative.

More Meanings

1. Long-established.

Example Sentences

I also started reading a great deal about Internet transactions and the impact of the Web on more old-line businesses

One of the old line insurance companies said to me recently, that they never made anything out of their underwriting business, but made their profit out of the investments of the reserved fund

Gay alcoholism in the Boston area has come out of its closet. Here and across the nation increasing numbers of us are working for the time when gay alcoholics will no longer be subjected to the discrimination and indignities that characterized old-line treatment programs until now.

I am deliberately convinced that Mr. Filmore has not the least chance of success, and that if it be at all possible to defeat Fremont, the Democratic party, with their candidates Buchanan and Breckinridge, with the aid of the Union-loving Old-line Whigs, is the only party which has the least chance to do so.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conservative, neo-reactionary, neoreactionary, reactionary, anticonservative, ultrareactionary.

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