Usually means: Advocates for social equality, reform.
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  1. leftist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leftist: Merriam-Webster
  3. leftist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leftist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leftist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leftist, leftist: Wordnik
  7. leftist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. leftist: Wiktionary
  9. leftist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leftist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leftist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. leftist: Dictionary.com
  13. Leftist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. leftist: Rhymezone
  15. leftist: FreeDictionary.org
  16. leftist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. leftist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  (politics, generally) A person who holds views associated with the political left.
noun:  (politics, specifically) Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the political left.

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