accommodationism

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accommodation +‎ -ism

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accommodationism (uncountable)

  1. A policy of being accommodating; in particular, of accommodating and compromising with an opposition (e.g. politically).
    • 2007, Dr Jason J McDonald, American Ethnic History, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
      Other historians argue that accommodationism has been the prevalent form of ethnic collective action merely because it was the only option available to many  []

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