stagnationistadj.n.
/staɡˈneɪʃənɪst/ Chiefly Economics.
A. adj.
Characterized by stagnation; promoting stagnation.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > relating to states or trends of the economy
anti-inflation1870
anti-inflationist1874
robust1886
static1890
recessionary1897
deflationary1920
inflationary1920
maximized1920
mature1928
recessional1929
anti-inflationary1932
reflationary1932
reflationist1932
Kondratieff1935
anti-cyclical1938
flatline1946
maximizing1949
stagnationist1951
countercyclical1952
recessed1956
recessive1971
stagflationary1971
flatlined1986
1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing v. 103 After some twenty million factory workers..had sent in resolutions calling for death to the ‘stagnationist vermin’, Edwards published another book.
1964 Economist 25 July 332/1 Consumption has moved into a stagnationist stage of the cycle.
B. n.
One who advocates or forecasts stagnation.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy > forecasters or advocates of
anti-inflationist1869
inflationist1876
reflationist1932
underconsumptionist1936
stagnationist1958
1958 Listener 10 July 57/2 Mr. Nicholson..joins the ranks of the ‘stagnationists’—those who would preserve forms when the functions have decayed.
1972 Hunt & Sherman Econ. i. vi. 84 Marx..was not a ‘stagnationist’—that is, he did not believe capitalism would suffer one long depression or that mass unemployment at high levels would last forever.
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