fabian

/'feibjən/

Thân thiện

A cautious general employs a Fabian strategy to avoid direct battle.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation: Describes a policy or approach that emphasizes patience, delay, and attrition rather than immediate, direct action.
   • Of or relating to Fabianism: Pertaining to the principles of the Fabian Society, which advocated for the gradual establishment of socialism through democratic means.

2. Noun:

   • A member of the Fabian Society in Britain: Refers to an individual belonging to this specific socialist organization founded in London in 1884.

Examples

• Adjective:

  • The general adopted a fabian strategy, avoiding a major battle and focusing on weakening the enemy's supply lines.
  • Their fabian approach to negotiations frustrated those who wanted quick results.
  • The Fabian Society was influential in the development of the British Labour Party.

• Noun:

  • George Bernard Shaw was a famous Fabian who contributed many essays to the society's publications.
  • As a Fabian, she believed in achieving social reform through gradual legislative change.

Advanced Usage

• Fabian tactics: A military or political strategy characterized by avoidance of decisive conflict, focusing instead on delaying and wearing down an opponent.

  • The rebels used Fabian tactics against the larger, better-equipped army.

• Fabian socialism: The specific ideological current associated with the Fabian Society, emphasizing incremental reform within existing political structures.

  • The party's platform was rooted in the tradition of Fabian socialism.

Variants and Related Words

• Fabianism (n): The principles and policies of the Fabian Society; the advocacy of a gradual transition to socialism.
  • His political philosophy was a blend of liberalism and Fabianism.

Synonyms

• Adjective (for the strategic sense): Cautious, dilatory, gradualist, procrastinating, delaying.
• Noun: Gradualist, reformist socialist.

Antonyms

• Adjective (for the strategic sense): Confrontational, direct, immediate, head-on.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation
   • a fabian policy
2. of or relating to Fabianism
   • the Fabian society

Noun

1. a member of the Fabian Society in Britain

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