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participative

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[pahr-tis-uh-puh-tiv, -payt-iv] / pɑrˈtɪs ə pə tɪv, -ˌpeɪt ɪv /

adjective

  1. involving or characterized by active participation; not passive.


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"The people are here now building popular power; the people are building from the bottom up participative and ecological democracy," Perez said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023

He ran on the promise of taking down the centralized state and replacing it with local institutions in order to make politics more participative.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2019

Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh said he wanted the group to "help bring the parliament back to its roots, ensuring Holyrood is open, transparent, truly participative and fit for the significant challenges which lie ahead".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2017

Instead, we should encourage experimentation with a variety of new democratic models at all levels to create more participative forms of policy-shaping.

From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2016

The admiring Rutowski, being of a participative turn, introduced her, after a while, to his honored parent and hers; by whom next—Heavens, human language is unequal to the history of such things!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle

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