Usually means: Advocating for aggressive, assertive policies.
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  1. hawkish: Merriam-Webster
  2. hawkish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hawkish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hawkish: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hawkish, hawkish: Wordnik
  6. hawkish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hawkish: Wiktionary
  8. hawkish: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hawkish: Dictionary.com
  10. Hawkish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hawkish: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hawkish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. hawkish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. hawkish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Hawkish: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. hawkish: Legal dictionary
  4. hawkish: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hawkish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hawkish: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. hawkish: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hawkish: Idioms

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adjective:  Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
adjective:  Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
adjective:  Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

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