actionist

From action +‎ -ist.

actionist (plural actionists)

1. (art, sometimes capitalized) One taking part in the actionism movement.
   • 2022, Sascha Bru […] , editors, Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:

     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.

2. (business, obsolete or non-native speakers) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.

   Synonym: actionary

3. Synonym of activist.
   • 2008 [1971], Joan Valerie Bondurant, editor, Conflict: Violence and Nonviolence, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

     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.

• “actionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• citations, Anticosti

• actionnist

Equivalent to actie +‎ -ist. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˌɑk.ʃoːˈnɪst/

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• Hyphenation: ac‧ti‧o‧nist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

actionist m (plural actionisten, diminutive actionistje n)

1. (historical) stockbroker [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: aandelenhandelaar, actiehandelaar