- ac|tion|ist
- ac|tion|ist «AK shuh nihst», noun.a person who favors taking immediate action, as in politics: »
He is a pragmatic man and not a theorist; an actionist and not a philosophic thinker (Harper's).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
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