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What does adventurism mean?

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Noun
  1. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. [from 19th c.]
  2. (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. [from 20th c.]
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The country is drifting dangerously towards aggressive military adventurism and the establishment of a repressive national-security state.
Only in this manner can we hope to reduce the risks of adventurism and miscalculation in a world that retains many thousands of nuclear weapons.
We must concentrate on creating conditions to restrain militarism and military adventurism in the world.
These awkward facts, combined with a formidable military capability, go a long way towards explaining the current colonialist adventurism.
There is widespread public concern about scientific adventurism with the human genome.
Her wilful eccentricity and sonic adventurism mapped out new territory for hip hop at the turn of the century.

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