prointerventionist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A supporter of intervention or interventionism.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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.”"
- "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.""
Etymology
From pro- + interventionist.
Inflected Forms
more prointerventionist (comparative)
most prointerventionist (superlative)
pro-interventionist (alternative)
prointerventionists (plural)