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transitionist

transitionist noun: someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.

Noun

transitionist (plural transitionists)

  1. Someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.
  2. Someone or something (such as a country) undergoing transition, e.g. from one system or status to another.
    • Namibian human rights activist Phil ya Nangoloh drew a distinction between transitionist states, which saw a nonviolent shift from dictatorship to multiparty democracy, and self-determinationist states […]2004, Steve Kibble, Futures for Southern Africa: Report of a Symposium Held in Windhoek, Namibia, September 2003, CIIR, →ISBN

Forms of transitionist

pluraltransitionists

Origin of transitionist

From transition + -ist.

Questions about transitionist

What does transitionist mean?
Transitionist means someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.
What part of speech is transitionist?
Transitionist is a noun.
What is the plural of transitionist?
The plural of transitionist is transitionists.

Words near transitionist in the dictionary

  1. transitioner
  2. transitioners
  3. transitioning
  4. transitionings
  5. transitionism
  6. transitionist
  7. transitionists
  8. transitionless
  9. transitionlessness
  10. transitions
  11. transitival

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