Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who favors coalition, or who is a member of a coalition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An advocate of coalition or a partner in a coalition
  • adjective Advocating coalition

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Examples

  • Unfortunately the former pro-coalitionist Lib Dems have gone in the opposite direction, thereby becoming the most useless political party in the Senedd.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Wish we could find another word than coalitionist.

    Oral History Interview with Moon Landrieu, January 10-11, 1974. Interview A-0089. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • To-day the Bolsheviki were in power, while yesterday's coalitionist ministers and their co-workers found themselves cast aside and suddenly deprived of every bit of influence upon the further course of events.

    From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Davidovich Trotzky 1909

  • He's another pro-amnesty lover, who wants to not only allow the 20 to 30 million to stay after criminally entering America, but he is an open border coalitionist who wants the country drowned in foreign labor.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Because of our coalitionist form of government, decisions are not always made as swiftly as people in the administration would like.

    J. Weekly 2010

  • He's another pro-amnesty lover, who wants to not only allow the 20 to 30 million to stay after criminally entering America, but he is an open border coalitionist who wants the country drowned in foreign labor.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • He's another pro-amnesty lover, who wants to not only allow the 20 to 30 million to stay after criminally entering America, but he is an open border coalitionist who wants the country drowned in foreign labor.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • He's another pro-amnesty lover, who wants to not only allow the 20 to 30 million to stay after criminally entering America, but he is an open border coalitionist who wants the country drowned in foreign labor.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • He's another pro-amnesty lover, who wants to not only allow the 20 to 30 million to stay after criminally entering America, but he is an open border coalitionist who wants the country drowned in foreign labor.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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