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concertative

concertative adjective: related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.

Adjective

concertative (comparative more concertative, superlative most concertative)

  1. Related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.
    • […] the development of the 'concertative state', the institutionalized consultation between large interest groups, government and administration.1983, Alexander Kouzmin, Public Sector Administration: New Perspectives, page 59
    • It [sc. the NEDC system] was clearly one of several concertative arrangements set up by the British state to provide channels of access for labor and management to industrial policy making.1986, Jeffrey A. Hart, “British Industrial Policy”, in Claude E. Barfield, William A. Schambra, editors, The Politics of Industrial Policy: A Conference Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute...

Forms of concertative

comparativemore concertative
superlativemost concertative

Origin of concertative

The "quarrelsome" sense is from Latin concertativus. The concertation sense is a back-formation from concertation, replacing the -ation suffix with -ative.

Questions about concertative

What does concertative mean?
Concertative means related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.
What part of speech is concertative?
Concertative is an adjective.

Words near concertative in the dictionary

  1. Concerta
  2. concertante
  3. concertantes
  4. concertation
  5. concertations
  6. concertative
  7. concertato
  8. concertatos
  9. concerted
  10. concertedly
  11. concertedness

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