Definition of statist in English:
statist
noun ˈsteɪtɪstˈsteɪdɪst
An advocate of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
this is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions
Example sentencesExamples
- The 'middle-of-the-road' statist cannot logically say that there are 'many forms' of unjustified coercion.
- Statists, in fact, are really opposed to charity.
- Statists remain free to claim that things will be different next time.
- Critics of regulation effectively cede the offensive to statists by confining their critique to case studies of regulation gone awry.
- Statists of a left-liberal bent are usually louder than their counterparts on the right.
adjective ˈsteɪtɪstˈsteɪdɪst
Relating to or characteristic of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
a statist approach to health care
the statist socialism of the Democrats
Example sentencesExamples
- Freedom cannot be portioned out by government officials in arbitrary doses in order to build what the statist mentalities call a Great Society.
- These foreign aid programs rely on a series of myths concocted by a statist intellectual class.
- More plausible is the proposition that the popular rationale for regulation is statist nonsense.
- They read into certain biblical texts a message consistent with their own statist environmentalism.
- United by more than racism, they were a party of reform committed to advancing an agrarian statist agenda.
Definition of statist in US English:
statist
nounˈsteɪdɪstˈstādist
An advocate of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
this is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions
Example sentencesExamples
- Critics of regulation effectively cede the offensive to statists by confining their critique to case studies of regulation gone awry.
- Statists of a left-liberal bent are usually louder than their counterparts on the right.
- Statists, in fact, are really opposed to charity.
- The 'middle-of-the-road' statist cannot logically say that there are 'many forms' of unjustified coercion.
- Statists remain free to claim that things will be different next time.
adjectiveˈsteɪdɪstˈstādist
Relating to or characteristic of a political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
a statist approach to health care
the statist socialism of the Democrats
Example sentencesExamples
- They read into certain biblical texts a message consistent with their own statist environmentalism.
- More plausible is the proposition that the popular rationale for regulation is statist nonsense.
- Freedom cannot be portioned out by government officials in arbitrary doses in order to build what the statist mentalities call a Great Society.
- These foreign aid programs rely on a series of myths concocted by a statist intellectual class.
- United by more than racism, they were a party of reform committed to advancing an agrarian statist agenda.