restrictionistn.adj.
/rᵻˈstrɪkʃn̩ɪst/, /rᵻˈstrɪkʃənɪst/, U.S. /rəˈstrɪkʃənəst/, /riˈstrɪkʃənəst/ A. n.
A person who advocates the policy or practice of limiting something (esp. free trade or immigration) by imposing restrictions.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > other political theories or doctrines > adherents of
quietist1783
restrictionist1812
progressist1844
abstentionist1857
progressive1884
productivist1892
white supremacist1896
restrictivist1899
minimalist1906
renovationist1920
Eurasian1922
communalist1927
Europasian1928
cultural Marxist1998
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > one who or that which restricts or limits
limiter1483
contractor1629
restrictive1629
restrictor1825
restrictionist1849
1812 Eclectic Rev. Aug. 798 The restrictionists will be thrown into inextricable difficulty.
1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 596 He contrives to combine the hitherto antagonistic qualities of free-trader and restrictionist.
1887 Voice 9 June 4 The restrictionists say, they wish to cut down the number of saloons by one-half.
1941 Economist 29 Mar. 406/1 The preservation of the margins of, say, August, 1939, as maxima, may simply do the work of monopolists or restrictionists for them.
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Mar. 1/2 A powerful bloc of ‘restrictionists’ is threatening to strike a successful blow at freedom of information.
2007 P. H. Schuck in C. M. Swain Debating Immigration ii. 20 Principled restrictionists..believe that immigration poses a threat to their goals or values.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of restrictionism or restrictionists.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other political theories or doctrines
radical1783
progressive1830
progressist1843
abstentionist1857
restrictionist1858
communalist1871
mutualistic1874
militant1876
possibilist1881
productivist1892
radical feminist1905
rejectionist1909
minimalist1917
pan-Asian1917
maximalist1918
one-world1919
Eurasian1922
gradualistic1926
Europasian1928
gradualist1931
social revolutionary1931
renovationist1934
restrictivist1936
identitarian1943
cultural Marxist1949
1858 Westm. Rev. Jan. 128/2 The whole system of currency legislation is restrictionist from beginning to end.
1924 Times 16 May 14/6 The conditions of the world markets are favourable to restrictionist tendencies.
1962 Listener 8 Mar. 400/1 A restrictionist policy which the unions have denounced as the cause of most of the trouble.
1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 18 Apr. (Metro) ii. 7/4 To balance this restrictionist intent, the law included an ‘amnesty’ for illegal aliens.
2005 C. Michael Hall & S. Boyd Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas i. 10 Many governments have adopted restrictionist economic policies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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