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statist en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsteɪtɪst/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English statist From state + -ist.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to statism.
    • By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions. 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 26:
    • Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward. 2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Jonathan Freedland: Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian:
    • It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable. 2006 January, David Garcia, “Learning the Right Lessons”, in Mute, →ISSN:
    • This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best. 2010 April 17, David Cameron, “This is a radical revolt against the statist approach of Big Government”, in The Guardian:

Forms

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most statist Degree=Sup lexicographic
more statist Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Translations (7)

de etatistisch (related to statism) · ca estatista (related to statism) · fi statistinen (related to statism) · fi valtiojohtoinen (related to statism) · fr étatiste (related to statism) · pl etatystyczny (related to statism) · fi etatistinen (related to statism)

statist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsteɪtɪst/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English statist From state + -ist.

Meanings

  1. A supporter of statism.
  2. (dated) A statistician.
  3. (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence.
    • Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]. 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 3:
    • [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […] 1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

Forms

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statists Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

antistatist

Translations (12)

de Etatist (supporter of statism) · pl etatysta (archaic: a skilled politician) · ca estadista (archaic: a skilled politician) · fi statisti (supporter of statism) · pl etatystka (supporter of statism) · de Etatistin (supporter of statism) · es estadista (archaic: a skilled politician) · ca estatista (supporter of statism) · fr étatiste (supporter of statism) · pl etatystka (archaic: a skilled politician) · fi etatisti (supporter of statism) · pl etatysta (supporter of statism)