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prointerventionist

prointerventionist adjective: supporting an intervention or interventionism.

Adjective

prointerventionist (comparative more prointerventionist, superlative most prointerventionist)

  1. Supporting an intervention or interventionism.
    • Perhaps someday my old US history teacher, and men like him, will use The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression in their courses to balance the many explicitly pro–New Deal and prointerventionist texts and presentations that dominate public-school curricula today.2009 November 25, Gennady Stolyarov II, “Murphy on the Great Confusion”, in Mises Institute
    • In his provocative essay, David Gibbs makes the following statement about diplomacy and the war in Bosnia. “There is also abundant evidence that diplomacy might have prevented the Bosnian war and thus prevented the Srebrenica massacre, but this option was blocked by prointerventionist forces in the...2015, Various Authors, “Responses to David N. Gibbs Article by John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha V Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, K ajan, Kees van der Pijl, an der Pijl...

Noun

prointerventionist (plural prointerventionists)

  1. A supporter of intervention or interventionism.
    • From his published remarks Brezhnev seems to have come down more on the side of the prointerventionists stressing, "We have a right to expect that party committees at all levels will enhance appreciably their influence on economic life."1982 December 31, “SOVIET ECONOMY AND IN THE 1980's: PROBLEMS PROSPECTS”, in Joint Economic Committee, page 55

Forms of prointerventionist

Adjective
comparativemore prointerventionist
superlativemost prointerventionist
alternative formpro-interventionist
Noun
pluralprointerventionists

Origin of prointerventionist

From pro- + interventionist.

Questions about prointerventionist

What does prointerventionist mean?
Prointerventionist means supporting an intervention or interventionism.
What part of speech is prointerventionist?
Prointerventionist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prointerventionist in the dictionary

  1. proinjunction
  2. proins
  3. proinsulin
  4. proinsulins
  5. prointervention
  6. prointerventionist
  7. prointerventionists
  8. proinvasive
  9. proinvestment
  10. proirrigation
  11. proisocortex

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