Definition of "left wing" []

• The liberal or radical faction of a group. (noun)
• See left1. (noun)

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• "From the beginning of democracy in South Africa, Nelson Mandela persuaded the left wing of his ruling coalition—the Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU, Communists, and leftists within the African National Congress—that conservative fiscal and monetary policies were needed to attract foreign investment and to create stability and prosperity."
• "Homosexuality in its exclusionist form is the radical left wing of the anti-natalist movement."
• "It was impact damage to a carbon panel on the left wing that would doomColumbia and her crew on February 1, 2003."