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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.
His departure has been welcomed by those investors both big and small who hope it'll bring an end to the company's corporate adventurism.
Do you want to be safe in your own country or do you want to waste precious lives and resources on military adventurism?
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.
They were successfully kept under the thumb, insofar as any lingering attraction to foreign adventurism was concerned.

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