Word Meanings - OBSTRUCTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.

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• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• LEGISLATIVE
  1. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PROGRESSIONIST
  1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
• LEGISLATIVELY
  In a legislative manner.
• PROGRESSIVE
  1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing
• IMPROGRESSIVE
  Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.