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partitionist

partitionist noun: a political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.

Noun

partitionist (plural partitionists)

  1. A political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.
    • That such antics were really a disguising tactic meant to mask the fact that ministers de Brun and McGuinness are operating a partitionist Stormont government with British civil servants may fool some of the more gullible Shinners, but few were around the north Down and east Belfast fortresses of...1999, Fortnight, numbers 376-390, page 25
  2. (Canada) A political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the western, southern portions and Montreal forming a separate province or country from the rest of Quebec.

Forms of partitionist

pluralpartitionists

Origin of partitionist

From partition + -ist.

Questions about partitionist

What does partitionist mean?
Partitionist means a political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.
What part of speech is partitionist?
Partitionist is a noun.
What is the plural of partitionist?
The plural of partitionist is partitionists.

Words near partitionist in the dictionary

  1. partitioning cellular automata
  2. partitioning cellular automaton
  3. partitioning cellular automatons
  4. partitionings
  5. partitionism
  6. partitionist
  7. partitionists
  8. partitionless
  9. partitionment
  10. partitionments
  11. partitions

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