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Definition of hard-line adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

hard-line

adjective

[usually before noun]

1(of a person) having very fixed beliefs and being unlikely or unwilling to change them a hard-line conservative

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2(of ideas) very fixed and unlikely to change a hard-line attitude

hard-liner

noun a Republican hard-linerSee hard-line in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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