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neutralist

American  
[noo-truh-list, nyoo-] / ˈnu trə lɪst, ˈnju- /

noun

  1. a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.

  2. a person who advocates or adheres to a policy or theory of neutralism.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or advocating neutralism.

Etymology

Origin of neutralist

First recorded in 1615–25; neutral + -ist


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Few serious European observers of the German scene, however, give much credence to any neutralist scenario.

From Time Magazine Archive

In March 1970, a coalition of military officers, students, urban intellectuals and businessmen mounted a successful coup against Cambodia's neutralist chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

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

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

German agents invaded Italy and conducted a campaign of propaganda through the neutralist newspapers and through more secret labors among various organizations influential in their control of public sentiment.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

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