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interventionist

/ ˌɪntəˈvɛnʃənɪst /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or advocating intervention, esp in the affairs of a foreign country
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. an interventionist person or state
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌinterˈventionism, noun
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Example Sentences

As such, Americans, and Republicans in particular, are becoming more interventionist in their foreign policy preferences.

But the logic of the anti-interventionist left is built today around the same moral flaw that it was during the Cold War.

No Republican presidential candidate in recent memory has won the nomination on a dovish or non-interventionist platform.

Rand Paul will bring his interesting mix of libertarian non-interventionist policy to the dance.

Then he said that in fact, the danger is not that the United States is these days too aggressively interventionist or imperialist.

Palmerston was inclined to be "interventionist," but was restrained by his colleagues and the influence of the Queen.

One type is market oriented – and the other, interventionist.

In the 'seventies Punch, as we have seen, was decidedly non-interventionist.

In their hands the external policy of the Republic, conducted with no lack of skill, was of necessity non-interventionist.

Using modern terms one may say that charity is “interventionist.”

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