transitionist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From transition + -ist.
Noun
[edit]transitionist (plural transitionists)
- Someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.
- Someone or something (such as a country) undergoing transition, e.g. from one system or status to another.
- 2004, Steve Kibble, Futures for Southern Africa: Report of a Symposium Held in Windhoek, Namibia, September 2003, CIIR, →ISBN:
- Namibian human rights activist Phil ya Nangoloh drew a distinction between transitionist states, which saw a nonviolent shift from dictatorship to multiparty democracy, and self-determinationist states […]