left-behind

English

Noun

left-behind (plural left-behinds)

1. Alternative form of Left Behind
   • 1998, Helena Barolini, Umbertina: A Novel, →ISBN:

     At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds.

   • 2004, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights, →ISBN:

     The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge the winners.

   • 2005, John Furnival, Children of the Second Spring, →ISBN:

     He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'.

   • 2010, Thomas S. Langner, Selfish Or Caring? America's Choice, →ISBN:

     Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right.

   • 2017, Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, →ISBN, page 111:

     Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy.

2. An item that was left behind when someone departed.
   • 2012, Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart, →ISBN:

     Breakfast when they return is at the little kitchen table where Max has eaten thousands of meals, and every morning, without fail, the old man slides a ripped-off chunk of toast and a piece of banana to the dog at his feet, precisely the behavior experts at Guiding Eyes for the Blind had warned against because it can turn a service dog into a food hound who noses along restaurant tabletops in search of left-behinds.

   • 2014, Dolores Knowles, Musings, →ISBN, page 119:

     First of the left-behinds was a book I left in a friend's car.

   • 2014, Bagels with the Bards #9, →ISBN, page 34:

     One sock gone here, one earring there, leaving The left-behinds in incompleteness and dismay, In awkwardness amounting to disorientation.