soft-liner

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English

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Etymology

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From soft +‎ line +‎ -er, modelled on hard-liner.

Noun

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soft-liner (plural soft-liners)

  1. (rare) A person who holds a moderate position and may be willing to compromise, as opposed to a hard-liner.
    • 2012, William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona Nadenichek Golder, Principles of Comparative Politics, page 299:
      At this node the soft-liners must decide whether to do nothing and stick with the status quo or to open up the political regime.
    • 2016, Jan-Erik Lane, Hamadi Redissi, Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim Civilisation, page 222:
      […] a realistic deal between “hard liners” and “soft liners” that would result in a sort of limited and explicit “partial-inclusion pact” […]
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