MEANING
Supporting or involving active government influence over economic activity or the affairs of another country.
Use it for
describing a government’s preference for active economic involvement; comparing approaches to foreign intervention; distinguishing an interventionist stance from a single interventionIdentifies an orientation favoring active intervention, not merely one isolated act of involvement. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- an interventionist state
- interventionist economic policy
- an interventionist foreign policy
On the page
The article contrasts interventionist industrial policy with a strategy centered on market competition.
Support for interventionist economic policy does not automatically imply support for military intervention abroad.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- interventionist
Usage notes
Adjective and countable noun. As a noun: interventionist, interventionists. No ordinary adjective comparative; more interventionist is natural for degree. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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