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interventista

interventionist

adjective noun een-ter-ven-TEE-stah Rare

Usage Note

Interventista means favouring direct intervention, especially by the state in the economy or by a country in foreign conflicts. It is one of Italian's -ista adjectives, which are invariable for gender in the singular (un politico interventista, una politica interventista) but take -i (m) or -e (f) in the plural.

Examples

"Il governo ha adottato una politica interventista."

Natural Translation

The government adopted an interventionist policy.

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