fringe party

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• fringe parties —    Fringe groups, as their classification suggests, are those groups which lie on the periphery of the political spectrum. Britain’s ‘first past the post’ electoral system encourages the main parties to accommodate a wide range of views, pushing… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• fringe — [frinj] n. [ME frenge < OFr frenge, fringe < VL * frimbia, metathesis of LL fimbria, a fringe, border < L fimbriae, shreds, fibers] 1. a border or trimming of cords or threads, hanging loose or tied in bunches 2. a) anything like this [a …   English World dictionary

• fringe — [[t]frɪ̱nʤ[/t]] fringes 1) N COUNT A fringe is hair which is cut so that it hangs over your forehead. [BRIT] (in AM, use bangs) 2) N COUNT A fringe is a decoration attached to clothes, or other objects such as curtains, consisting of a row of… …   English dictionary

• Fringe — Pour le festival d’Edimbourg, voir Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Fringe Titre original Fringe Genre Science fiction, policier Créateur(s) J. J. Abrams Alex Kurtzman Rober …   Wikipédia en Français

• fringe groups —    In the postwar era of consensus politics it was difficult to locate distinctive and coherent major party fringe groups. Clearer ideological differences of opinion within the two dominant political parties emerged from the late 1960s, and… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• fringe — fringe1 [frındʒ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: Latin fimbria threads ] 1.) BrE if you have a fringe, your hair is cut so that it hangs down over your forehead American Equivalent: bangs ▪ a tall girl with straight brown hair and a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• fringe — I UK [frɪndʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms fringe : singular fringe plural fringes * 1) British short hair that hangs down over your forehead. The American word is bangs My fringe needs cutting. 2) a row of fibres or thin pieces of cloth that …   English dictionary

• fringe — [[t]frɪndʒ[/t]] n. v. fringed, fring•ing 1) clo fur a decorative border of threads, cords, or the like, usu. hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip 2) anything resembling or suggesting this; border; rim: a fringe of grass[/ex] 3)… …   From formal English to slang

• fringe — fringeless, adj. fringelike, adj. fringy, adj. /frinj/, n., v., fringed, fringing. n. 1. a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip. 2. anything resembling or suggesting this: a …   Universalium

• fringe — 1 noun (C) 1 BrE the part of your hair that hangs over your forehead; bangs bang 2 (3) AmE 2 a decorative edge of hanging threads on a curtain, piece of clothing etc 3 on the fringe of a) at the part of something that is farthest from the centre …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• fringe — 01. She was wearing a cowboy hat and a leather jacket trimmed with [fringe]. 02. The nation of Bhutan, located on the southern [fringes] of the eastern Himalayas, takes its name from an Indian word meaning the edge of Tibet. 03. The heart of… …   Grammatical examples in English