transitionist

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noun

Someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.

OriginEnglish transition ← Middle French transition →
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Meanings

nountransitionist (plural transitionists)

plural transitionists

  1. Someone skilled at coping with, or managing transition in some, or any field.
  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 […]

    2004, Steve Kibble, Futures for Southern Africa: Report of a Symposium Held in Windhoek, Namibia, September 2003, CIIR, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchtransition
  2. Englishtransition
  3. Englishtransitionist

From transition + -ist.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transitionist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transitionist.

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