Dictionary

restructurist en · ADJ

Etymology

From restructure + -ist.

Meanings

1. (rare) Pertaining to restructurism; promoting the restructure of a system or institution.
   • By using some voices in the novel to vent his anger towards this mysterious and sinister Khartoum ruling clique (of which incidently, he was a prominent member), the author is merely joining the orgy of verbal intimidation and abuse that is the stock in trade of the restructurist intellectuals. 1991, M.I. Shoush, “In search of an Afro‐Arab identity: the Southern concept of the Northern Sudan as seen through the novels of Francis Deng”, in British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin, volume 18, number 1, page 78:
   • Among varying visions of the purposes of SSR in the OPT, two broad approaches have been identified. […] The second is a more ‘restructurist’ agenda to reorganise security forces to address Israeli security concerns and suppress Palestinian violence. 2009, Esra Bulut, “EUPOL COPPS (Palestinian territories)” (chapter 16), in Giovanni Grevi, Damien Helly, Daniel Keohane, editors, European Security and Defence Policy: The First Ten Years (1999–2009), Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, →ISBN, page 294:
   • The Commersant political and economic writers spoke of Mikhail Gorbachev, Abel Aganbeygan [Aganbegyan], Stanislav Shatalin, and other leading restructurist economists and politicians as being right-wing. 1991, A. Craig Copetas, Bear Hunting with the Politburo: A Gritty First-Hand Account of Russia's Young Entrepreneurs—and Why Soviet-Style Capitalism Can't Work, New York, N. Y.: Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN, page 203:

Forms

Relateds

restructurism

Synonyms

reframist