neutralist
Americannoun
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a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
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a person who advocates or adheres to a policy or theory of neutralism.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of neutralist
Example Sentences
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"Were I in Viet Nam, I think I might be an anguished neutralist Buddhist some place," he has confessed to an interviewer.
From Time Magazine Archive
After two months of fitful negotiations in Vientiane, there has been scant progress in the talks between the Pathet Lao and the U.S.-backed but nominally "neutralist" government of Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saddam Hussein envisioned the meeting as a way to emphasize Iraq's maturing role as the dominant neutralist power in the gulf.
From Time Magazine Archive
For three years, Cambodia's chimerical Prince veiled his relations with the Viet Cong by keeping foreign journalists out of his "neutralist" country.
From Time Magazine Archive
The allied powers must draw him from that jail, before they can have the full advantage of the exertions of this great neutralist.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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