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interventionist

interventionist adjective: of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.

Adjective

interventionist (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.
    • 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 you1997, “Into My Arms”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), The Boatman’s Call, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    • And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.2016 August 31, Tal Kopan, “Will Hillary Clinton’s GOP outreach alienate progressives?”, in CNN

Noun

interventionist (plural interventionists)

  1. One who practices or defends interventionism.
    • 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.2014 January 23, Aaron David Miller, “Syria conflict is tragic, but U.S. can’t fix it”, in CNN
    • 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.2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian
  2. A physician who performs minimally invasive procedures using imaging guidance.
    • Interventionists who took longer than average to thrombectomize AVF [arteriovenous fistulas] took longer than average to thrombectomize AVG [arteriovenous grafts].2013 May–June, Donald Schon, Tammy DeLozier, Nina Patel, “Comparison of Procedure Cost for Thrombectomy of Arteriovenous Fistulas and Grafts”, in Seminars in Dialysis, volume 26, number 3, →DOI, page...

interventionist meaning in Tamil and Urdu

interventionist in Tamil

மற்றவரின் விவகாரங்களில் தலையிடும், குறுக்கிடும் கொள்கை, குறுக்கிடும்

interventionist in Urdu

مداخلت پسند

Synonyms of interventionist

Forms of interventionist

pluralinterventionists

Origin of interventionist

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

Words formed from interventionist

Questions about interventionist

What does interventionist mean?
Interventionist means of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.
What is interventionist in Tamil?
Interventionist in Tamil is மற்றவரின் விவகாரங்களில் தலையிடும், குறுக்கிடும் கொள்கை, குறுக்கிடும். See Interventionist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is interventionist?
Interventionist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near interventionist in the dictionary

  1. interventionalist
  2. interventionalists
  3. interventionally
  4. interventionism
  5. interventionisms
  6. interventionist
  7. interventionistic
  8. interventionistically
  9. interventionists
  10. interventions
  11. interventive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interventionist (page history and authors); interventionist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interventionist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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