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reˈstrictionist, n. (and a.)
[f. restriction + -ist.]
One who advocates the restriction of some practice, institution, etc., such as the liquor-trade. Also as adj.
1820Niles' Reg. XVIII. 258/2 We undertake to say that there is not a single confessed restrictionist elected through⁓out the whole territory. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 596 He contrives to combine the hitherto antagonistic qualities of free-trader and restrictionist. 1863H. Spencer Ess. II. 322 The whole system of currency-legislation is restrictionist from beginning to end. 1887Voice 9 June 4 The restrictionists say, they wish to cut down the number of saloons by one-half. 1941Economist 29 Mar. 406/1 The preservation of the margins of, say, August, 1939, as maxima, may simply do the work of monopolists or restrictionists for them. 1951Sun (Baltimore) 19 Mar. 1/2 A powerful bloc of ‘restrictionists’ is threatening to strike a successful blow at freedom of information in the name of the United Nations. 1962Listener 8 Mar. 400/1 A restrictionist policy which the unions have denounced as the cause of most of the trouble. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 673/1 What is needed is..a restrictionist philosophy in the field of reproduction..coupled with an expansionist philosophy in the field of production and distribution of all the other good things of life. |