hawkish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.

2. 2

   Supportive of warlike foreign policy

   Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.

   • The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
   • This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.
   • But before the letter was finalized, it drew denunciation from the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
3. 3

   Favouring increasing interest rates

   Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

   • The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.

The neighborhood

• neighborwar hawk