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two-party system

[ too-pahr-tee ]

noun

Government.
  1. a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.


two-party system

noun

  1. a condition or system in which two major parties dominate a political unit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of two-party system1

First recorded in 1900–05
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In the context of the US two-party system, they tend to abstain and withdraw from public life.

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In the U.S. two-party system, it has swallowed one of the two existing parties, usurping the role of conservatism and exploiting traditional party loyalties.

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If you hate Wall Street, Trump or the two-party system, there’s a lot to work with here.

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"If you have a two-party system, it can take a really long time before societal tensions reach the top at the political level, and then suddenly you have this takeover by ideological extremists, as we have seen with the Republican Party."

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That's a lot more difficult to do in a two-party system than it is in a multiparty system, as we have in Europe, because when you have these sort of social tensions that are slowly building up, there will always emerge a new political party.

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