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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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
"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
It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries usually purported to be U.S. documents showing American diplomats engaged in subversion of neutralist governments.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is Yugoslavia, proof, at least as long as Marshal Tito lives, that a neutralist, independent Communist state is possible.
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 Burke, Edmund
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