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UK
/ɹɪfˈɔːmɪst/
]
[ US /ɹɪˈfɔɹmɪst/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˈfɔɹmɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
NOUN
- a disputant who advocates reform
How To Use reformist In A Sentence
- In the past, the Democrats combined their anti-communism with liberal reformist policies.
- The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate, reformist labour movement.
- Such synecdoches are central to reformist representation, which relies on one ‘wretched woman’ to stand in for all.
- Criticizing them for being too reformist is just totally missing the point. Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change
- Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
- The twentieth century has demonstrated that it is impossible to tame capitalism by means of social reformist policies.
- Since reform began in the early 1980s, Chinese politics has been primarily a battle between two factions: reformists and leftists.
- The reformists must not win control of the movement.
- As early as 2003, a proposal for a denuclearized ME supported by Egypt and Jordan was to be presented to the UN by Khatami's reformist government on Iran's behalf. Amir Madani: Perspectives of Peace in the Middle East
- The ads could cause those who have supported Chen for his reformist ideals to think twice before voting for him, Tseng said.