Transitionist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.
  2. 2
    Someone or something (such as a country) undergoing transition, e.g. from one system or status to another.

    "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 […]"

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"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 […]"

Etymology

From transition + -ist.

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