developmentalist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

developmental +‎ -ist

Adjective[edit]

developmentalist (comparative more developmentalist, superlative most developmentalist)

  1. Of, or related to developmentalism.
    • 2017, Jason Hickel, “The Age of the Coup”, in The Divide [] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
      [Eisenhower] did it in the end by drawing heavily on Cold War rhetoric: he painted developmentalism as the first step on the road to communism, and by connecting developmentalist governments to the USSR he was able to tar them in the mind of American citizens.

Noun[edit]

developmentalist (plural developmentalists)

  1. A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
    • 1987, The Bulletin of the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education, Issue 7[1]:
      He was a developmentalist, a universalist, and a believer in social values and cultural influences.