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actionist

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. One taking part in the actionism movement.
  2. A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
  3. Synonym of activist.

Examples

“The most radical of all 1960s performers, the Viennese Actionists explored a broad spectrum of transgressions up until the end⟳ of the 1960s: sodomy, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, anthropophagy, self-mutilation, and animal sacrifices.”
“Generally speaking, the risks to the actionists on the one hand, and to the system against which they take⟳ action on the other, are least in the case of nonviolent protest⟳ and greatest in the case of nonviolent intervention.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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