interventionist

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French interventionniste, equivalent to intervention +‎ -ist.

Adjective

interventionist (comparative more interventionist, superlative most interventionist)

  1. Of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.
    • 1997, “Into My Arms”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), The Boatman’s Call, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
      I don't believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do / But if I did, I would kneel down and ask Him / Not to intervene when it came to you
    • 2016 August 31, Tal Kopan, “Will Hillary Clinton’s GOP outreach alienate progressives?”, in CNN:
      And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.

Translations

Noun

interventionist (plural interventionists)

  1. One who practices or defends interventionism.
    • 2014 January 23, Aaron David Miller, “Syria conflict is tragic, but U.S. can’t fix it”, in CNN:
      The liberal interventionists and neoconservatives who have accused the administration of failing to lead never laid out an effective case as to what the relationship between U.S. military action and the political end state in Syria would be.
    • 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian:
      Senior players were sceptical to begin with, startled by Conte’s aggressively interventionist training sessions, practice constantly stopped by that barking voice, points of positional detail brutally drilled.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From intervention +‎ -ist, from English interventionist.

Noun

interventionist c (singular definite interventionisten, plural indefinite interventionister)

  1. interventionist
    Antonym: isolationist

Declension

Declension of interventionist
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative interventionist interventionisten interventionister interventionisterne
genitive interventionists interventionistens interventionisters interventionisternes

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