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prointerventionist en · ADJ

Etymology

From pro- + interventionist.

Meanings

  1. Supporting an intervention or interventionism.
    • 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 United States, which demanded a military option instead.” 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, and John Feffer”, in Class, Race and Corporate Power, volume 3, number 2, page 25:
    • 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:

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prointerventionist en · NOUN

Etymology

From pro- + interventionist.

Meanings

  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:

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