restructurist

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English

Etymology

From restructure +‎ -ist.

Adjective

restructurist (comparative more restructurist, superlative most restructurist)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to restructurism; promoting the restructure of a system or institution.
    • 1991, A. Craig Copetas, Bear Hunting with the Politburo: A Gritty First-Hand Account of Russia's Young Entrepreneurs—and Why Soviet-Style Capitalism Can't Work, New York, N. Y.: Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN, page 203:
      The Commersant political and economic writers spoke of Mikhail Gorbachev, Abel Aganbeygan [Aganbegyan], Stanislav Shatalin, and other leading restructurist economists and politicians as being right-wing.
    • 1991, M.I. Shoush, “In search of an Afro‐Arab identity: the Southern concept of the Northern Sudan as seen through the novels of Francis Deng”, in British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin, volume 18, number 1, page 78:
      By using some voices in the novel to vent his anger towards this mysterious and sinister Khartoum ruling clique (of which incidently, he was a prominent member), the author is merely joining the orgy of verbal intimidation and abuse that is the stock in trade of the restructurist intellectuals.
    • 2009, Esra Bulut, “EUPOL COPPS (Palestinian territories)” (chapter 16), in Giovanni Grevi, Damien Helly, Daniel Keohane, editors, European Security and Defence Policy: The First Ten Years (1999–2009), Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, →ISBN, page 294:
      Among varying visions of the purposes of SSR in the OPT, two broad approaches have been identified. [] The second is a more ‘restructurist’ agenda to reorganise security forces to address Israeli security concerns and suppress Palestinian violence.

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