Definitions
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- noun politics A
policy ofwaiting ; awaiting game .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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I should think it more important to Judt's subject that, during those Thirties, De Gaulle tirelessly fought against the "attentisme" of the French military.
'France's Hollow Years': An Exchange Carroll, David 1996
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Sarkozy's well-intentioned effort to force the Western allies out of their phlegmatic attentisme.
Dr. Charles G. Cogan: Toujours de l'Audace! Dr. Charles G. Cogan 2011
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I was just reading how Paul De Man was engaged in attentisme of some sort of another.
Gallery System EAGEAGEAG 2009
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