concertative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.
Example Sentences
- "[…] the development of the 'concertative state', the institutionalized consultation between large interest groups, government and administration."
- "It [sc. the NEDC system] was clearly one of several concertative arrangements set up by the British state to provide channels of access for labor and management to industrial policy making."
- "The Swedish political system has long been regarded as exemplary of what political scientists have called a “consensus model” of democracy […] During the postwar period, political institutions have supposedly been characterized by “a low intensity of conflict, together with a highly effective machinery for conflict resolution. The predominant style of policy-making is seen as concertative and deliberative, and the level of inter-elite agreement is high” (Elder at al. 1988: 182; cf. 465–7)."
Etymology
The "quarrelsome" sense is from Latin concertativus. The concertation sense is a back-formation from concertation, replacing the -ation suffix with -ative.
Inflected Forms
more concertative (comparative)
most concertative (superlative)