tendency

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tendencies

1. 1.A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.

   • I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie.
   • There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.
   • Denim has a tendency to fade.

2. 2.An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

   • Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.
   • In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
   • It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.

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