incrementalistn.adj.
/ɪnkrɪˈmɛntəlɪst/ A. n.
A proponent of incrementalism.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [noun] > principle or method of > advocate of
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1977 Washington Post 17 Feb. d2/3 An advocate of government participation in economic and social affairs, [she] calls herself ‘an incrementalist’.
1979 Nature 22 Nov. 427/2 To judge him by his own criteria for scrutiny, he is an incrementalist with misgivings about the prospects for incrementalism.
1984 New Yorker 16 Apr. 124/2 He is a liberal and a conservative. He is a self-professed incrementalist and a romantic.
1989 Fortune 22 May 12/4 Both are incrementalists who seek bipartisan solutions.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to incrementalism.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective] > theory of
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1980 Chem. Week 30 Apr. 31/2 Industry is ‘more prepared to deal on an incrementalist approach.., rather than having to make constant confrontations’.
1983 Foreign Affairs Spring 921 The invasion..was one logical result of an incrementalist Soviet policy that came to equate security with control.
1988 Institutional 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.
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