Statist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsteɪtɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Statist is a noun meaning A supporter of statism.
Meaning
A supporter of statism.
More Meanings
- Pertaining to statism.
- (dated) A statistician.
- (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence.
Example Sentences
This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.
It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable.
Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […].
[O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]
Word Forms
- statists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dirigiste, static, archist, governmentist, etatism, stateism.
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