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stagnationist

stagnationist adjective: characterized by stagnation.

Adjective

stagnationist (comparative more stagnationist, superlative most stagnationist)

  1. Characterized by stagnation.
    • A flat and downward-sloping schedule — the intersection of co-operative and stagnationist regimes — describes a wage-led growth regime, a result which follows immediately from the definition of wage-led growth as one in which a higher rate of accumulation.1991, Stephen A. Marglin, Juliet B. Schor, The Golden Age of Capitalism, page 172
    • In Maxine Berg's recent book, Josef Steindl has argued that his explanation of the stagnationist tendency of the first one-third of the twentieth century could not be straightforwardly applied to that of the last one-third because of the rise in the power of labour and the growth of interneational...2004, Tracy Mott, Nina Shapiro, Rethinking Capitalist Development

Forms of stagnationist

comparativemore stagnationist
superlativemost stagnationist

Origin of stagnationist

From stagnation + -ist.

Questions about stagnationist

What does stagnationist mean?
Stagnationist means characterized by stagnation.
What part of speech is stagnationist?
Stagnationist is an adjective.

Words near stagnationist in the dictionary

  1. stagnating
  2. stagnation
  3. stagnation point
  4. stagnation points
  5. stagnational
  6. stagnationist
  7. stagnations
  8. stagnative
  9. stagnatory
  10. stagnature
  11. Stagner

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