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activist

[ak-tuh-vist]

noun

an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.

adjective

of or pertaining to activism or activists: an activist organization for environmental concern.

advocating or opposing a cause or issue vigorously, especially a political cause: Activist opponents of the President picketed the White House.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1905–10; active + -ist

Related forms

non·ac·tiv·ist, adjective, noun

Can be confused: activist, pacifist, passivist.

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Example Sentences

After a failed effort to stop her from talking about a case, an activist was served with a sprawling subpoena.

Not everyone on staff or in the leadership is on board with this more activist profile.

Vodafone comes under pressure from activist shareholders.

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After a failed effort to stop her from talking about a case, an activist was served with a sprawling subpoena.

Not everyone on staff or in the leadership is on board with this more activist profile.

Vodafone comes under pressure from activist shareholders.

The auction was disrupted last month by an environmental activist who bid up parcels of land with no intention of paying.

These were moving, important experiences in my development as a scholar and activist.

Unwittingly, the segregationist commission had created an indelible homage to the activist riders.

Sapone had something of a talent for infiltrating activist groups.

But others have run departments of nursing, corporate divisions, or activist movements.

Americans have grown slightly more receptive to the idea of an activist government.

Despite pressure from activist groups, perpetrators are rarely punished.

Mad, you might find this bit of history interesting since it involves an activist offering herself in place of a chimpanzee.

He was an activist in some ways, a philosophical activist.

Caldeira's transit from antinuke activist to climate scientist grew out of his fondness for ecotourism.

For all his understanding of the limits of power, he liked his governments activist.

It makes no sense that he would find that the environment is tanking through his research and then become an activist.

Activist gatherings at previous meetings have been small and peaceful.

However, hedge funds are not the only activist shareholders.

Etheredge is not your typical global warming activist.

But a real activist life involves real relationships.

Today that sentiment lingers in the way that the country's politicians and companies resist activist shareholders and dealmakers.

It is the social activist environmentalist who is impacting the world food supplies.

But they are investing alongside some activist hedge funds which are planning to load the railways up with debt.

The animal rights and environmental activist had been trailed daily by cops over several months, and had even.

Maybe you are a political activist who has been arrested at a demonstration or two.

Now you can put those activist parents of the autistic children in their place.

Jacobsen's numbers come from references to another greenie activist article which was in itself debunked.

Abroad, an activist foreign policy brought new clout and new criticism.

So far only two obscurities have declared themselves, a pizza mogul and a gay-rights activist.

Some foreign activist investors are also taking a more subtle approach.

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World English Dictionary

activism (ˈæktɪˌvɪzəm)

—n
	a policy of taking direct and often militant action to achieve an end, esp a political or social one

'activist

—n

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Word Origin & History

activist

"one who advocates a doctrine of direct action," 1915; from active (q.v.). Activism in this sense is first attested 1920; earlier (1907) it was used in ref. to a philosophical theory.

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