Historical A person involved in the labour movement.
For many British, as well as Australian socialists and labourites, the labour movement had a special duty to appropriate, restore and develop the "true" patriotism of "the education and uplifting of England herself as a nation", of democratic advance, of "a love of freedom", […]2010, Billy Frank, Craig Horner, David Stewart, The British Labour Movement and Imperialism, page 63:
Labourite
noun
Etymology From Labour + -ite.
1
Government, PoliticsUK a member or supporter of the British Labour Party, the left wing party of Great Britain
2
Misspelling Misspelling of Laborite (“Australian political party member, Labor Party”).