expansionistn.adj.
/ᵻkˈspanʃn̩ɪst/, /ɛkˈspanʃn̩ɪst/, /ᵻkˈspanʃənɪst/, /ɛkˈspanʃənɪst/, U.S. /ɪkˈspæn(t)ʃ(ə)nəst/, /ɛkˈspæn(t)ʃ(ə)nəst/ One who advocates a policy or a theory of expansion, esp. an advocate of expansion of the currency, or of territorial expansion (see expansion n. 4d). Also attributive.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of > supporter of
common holder1565
abolitionist1827
governmentalist1831
destructive1832
annexationist1841
destructionist1841
annexionist1844
decompositionist1849
expansionist1862
disintegrator1865
dissolutionist1882
irredentist1882
disintegrationist1884
isolationist1899
retentionist1899
free fooder1903
laissez-fairist1932
autarkist1938
elitist1938
neo-isolationist1950
non-aligner1963
1862 Lit. Churchm. VIII. 339/1 ‘We look for the time’ (says the Expansionist) ‘and doubt not it will come’, etc.
1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 160 Whether the new Secretary..would be an expansionist or a contractionist.
1884 G. Smith Expansion of Eng. in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 531 Standing on his historical island, the British Expansionist sees all the other communities of the race revolving round him.
1886 F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 7 292 The expansionists [i.e. those who maintain that the Iliad was ‘expanded’ from an original shorter poem] therefore have set to work to remove these incrustations.
1886 F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 7 295 Fick himself supports the expansionist theory.
1898 Daily News 3 Jan. 6/4 Truly a tempting country for an Expansionist son of Japhet to fix eye upon.
1898 Daily News 14 Mar. 4/5 The editor of ‘The Free Press’ has been expelled from Siam for..advocating a French expansionist policy.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 1/2 Expansionist Republicans.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 17 Apr. 2/1 It seems..doubtful if those reasons will commend themselves either to ‘Irredentists’ or to ‘Expansionists’.
1940 Economist 10 Aug. 190/1 The banks, much more than the insurance companies, have the compensatory advantage that expansionist war finance means a progressive increase in earning assets.
1961 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 20/4 The Ethiopians are traditionally wary of a Somalia ‘expansionist’ policy.
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n.adj.1862