Incrementalism
noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps. countable, uncountable
"We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask."
Example
More examples"We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask."
Etymology
From incremental + -ism.
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