Associations to the word «Activist»

Wiktionary

ACTIVIST, noun. One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
ACTIVIST, noun. One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
ACTIVIST, adjective. Behaving as an activist.
ACTIVIST INVESTOR, noun. A person or a group purchasing and using an equity stake in a publicly traded corporation to put public pressure on its management, with the goal of effecting a change
ACTIVIST JUDGE, noun. (US) (pejorative) (chiefly in right-wing discourse) A judge or justice who makes rulings based on personal political views or considerations rather than on the law, or who issues rulings intended to have political effects.
ACTIVIST JUDGES, noun. Plural of activist judge
ACTIVIST JUSTICE, noun. (US) (pejorative) (chiefly in right-wing discourse) A justice (usually referring to a member of a Supreme, High or Appellate court) who makes rulings based on personal political views or considerations rather than on the law, or who issues rulings intended to have political effects.
ACTIVIST JUSTICES, noun. Plural of activist justice

Dictionary definition

ACTIVIST, noun. A militant reformer.
ACTIVIST, adjective. Advocating or engaged in activism.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne