| 释义 |
incrementalist, n. and a.|ɪnkrɪˈmɛntəlɪst|
[f. incremental a. + -ist.]
A. n. A proponent of incrementalism.
1977Washington Post 17 Feb. d2/3 An advocate of government participation in economic and social affairs, [she] calls herself ‘an incrementalist’. 1979Nature 22 Nov. 427/2 To judge him by his own criteria for scrutiny, he is an incrementalist with misgivings about the prospects for incrementalism. 1984New Yorker 16 Apr. 124/2 He is a liberal and a conservative. He is a self-professed incrementalist and a romantic. 1989Fortune 22 May 12/4 Both are incrementalists who seek bipartisan solutions.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to incrementalism.
1980Chemical Week 30 Apr. 31/2 Industry is ‘more prepared to deal on an incrementalist approach.., rather than having to make constant confrontations’. 1983Foreign Affairs Spring 921 The invasion..was one logical result of an incrementalist Soviet policy that came to equate security with control. 1988Institutional Investor June 72/3 She plans to stick to what she calls her ‘incrementalist’ philosophy of steadily pushing toward good policy one step at a time. |