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interventionist Definition

in·ter·ven·tion·ist (-ist)

noun

one who favors or practices intervention, esp. in international affairs

adjective

  1. of intervention or interventionists
  2. favoring or practicing intervention

interventionist Related Forms
in′·ter·ven′·tion·ism′ noun
interventionist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: To achieve the Government's goal, tribunals will have to become more interventionist.

Adjective modifier

  • liberal: Blair supporters would think of him as a liberal interventionist, keen on nation building, rather than a neocon.
  • foreign: The proletariat of Russia conquered domestic reaction and foreign interventionists without military support form the outside.
  • early: Do you know if they have had him seen by an early interventionist?

Modifies a noun

  • policy: Interventionist policies, combined with a steep fall in the external terms of trade, led to economic decline.
  • approach: In the 1940s, the second refined the concept in the context of a general recognition of an interventionist approach to financial markets.
  • role: Seeking to " ensure the expeditious resolution of the action " the Sheriff's interventionist role will be at the heart of the procedure.
  • strategy: It doesnt attempt to be a grand plan, nor an interventionist strategy.
  • state: His vision of renewal does not place faith in the established churches, an interventionist state or faceless bureaucracy.
  • force: On all fronts the counter-revolutionary White and interventionist forces had been decisively repulsed.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: Such non-material values were usually allied to material beliefs in a highly interventionist state sector.
  • too: Their delight is being diluted by a concern that the government is becoming too interventionist for the housebuilding industry's good.
  • sufficiently: A second reason is that some of the authors share the belief that Western policy is not sufficiently interventionist.
  • overly: Our approach is sometimes regarded as overly interventionist or 'engaging with dark forces ' .

Noun used with modifier

  • state: For some, he is really a state interventionist.
  • non-: Although I would emphasize that non- interventionist doesn't mean not involved.

Possessives

  • approach: Altogether, his is an ' interventionist ' approach almost to a fault; as such it may not suit all tastes.