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in-vyr-uh-n-MENT-uh-list/ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmentəlɪst/

An environmentalist is a person who works to protect the natural world from damage: a leading environmentalist; environmentalist groups. Ecologist is often the scientist twin; campaigner is broader; green is informal. Name the environmentalist in the source, then the campaign. Mix-up: environmentalist vs environment as a vague noun; environmentalist vs industrialist; do not write environmentalist for anyone who recycles at home with no campaign named.

Meaning

A person who works to protect the natural world from damage.

Examples

• “Name the environmentalist in the source, then the campaign, not a green slogan.”
• “Environmentalist objections featured in the planning inquiry, which is still a named group — quote the ground of objection.”

Good to know

an environmentalist; environmentalist groups / objections. Close: campaigner / conservationist. Science twin: ecologist. Trap: a household recycler with no campaign. Geography, citizenship, and biology. A protector of the environment — name the person or group and the issue.

Near in meaning

conservationist, campaigner, green campaigner

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