interventionist

Borrowed from French interventionniste, equivalent to intervention +‎ -ist.

interventionist (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.
   • 1997, “Into My Arms”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), The Boatman’s Call, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

     I don't believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do / But if I did, I would kneel down and ask Him / Not to intervene when it came to you

   • 2016 August 31, Tal Kopan, “Will Hillary Clinton’s GOP outreach alienate progressives?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.

interventionist (plural interventionists)

1. One who practices or defends interventionism.

   Synonym: interventionalist

   • 2014 January 23, Aaron David Miller, “Syria conflict is tragic, but U.S. can’t fix it”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The liberal interventionists and neoconservatives who have accused the administration of failing to lead never laid out an effective case as to what the relationship between U.S. military action and the political end state in Syria would be.

   • 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Senior players were sceptical to begin with, startled by Conte’s aggressively interventionist training sessions, practice constantly stopped by that barking voice, points of positional detail brutally drilled.

2. (medicine) A physician who performs minimally invasive procedures using imaging guidance.

   Synonym: interventionalist

   • 2013 May–June, Donald Schon, Tammy DeLozier, Nina Patel, “Comparison of Procedure Cost for Thrombectomy of Arteriovenous Fistulas and Grafts”, in Seminars in Dialysis, volume 26, number 3, →DOI, page 344:

     Interventionists who took longer than average to thrombectomize AVF [arteriovenous fistulas] took longer than average to thrombectomize AVG [arteriovenous grafts].

• interventionalist

From intervention +‎ -ist, from English interventionist.

interventionist c (singular definite interventionisten, plural indefinite interventionister)

1. interventionist

   Antonym: isolationist

• interventionisme

• “interventionist” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog