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austeritarian

austeritarian noun: one who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.

Noun

austeritarian (plural austeritarians)

  1. One who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.
    • And for your Sunday night delectation, we have a reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians…2013, Miriam Lord, “A reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians: carry on suffering”, in The Irish Times
    • Austeritarians bang on about the debt while failing to plug revenue holes.2015, Glen Newey, “The HSBC Buccaneers”, in London Review of Books

Adjective

austeritarian (comparative more austeritarian, superlative most austeritarian)

  1. Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity.
    • The will to convene this Summit of the peoples and alternatives is based on a call (www.altersummit.eu ) that identifies the fundamentally political dimension of the EU crisis : the austeritarian answers are chosen knowingly although they aggravate the crisis, to impose a failover of the social...2012, “Our democracy against their austerity”, in Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt
    • This observation is especially important because with our criticism of the existing ‘structural reforms’ being pushed through by the ‘austeritarian regime’ we do not mean to encourage the belief that reforms are not necessary; they are, especially in those countries most badly affected by the...2014, Steffen Lehndorff, “The ‘Austeritarian’ Integration Dividing Europe”, in Transform! Europe

Forms of austeritarian

Noun
pluralausteritarians
Adjective
comparativemore austeritarian
superlativemost austeritarian

Origin of austeritarian

From austerity + -arian.

Questions about austeritarian

What does austeritarian mean?
Austeritarian means one who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.
What part of speech is austeritarian?
Austeritarian can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of austeritarian?
The plural of austeritarian is austeritarians.

Words near austeritarian in the dictionary

  1. austerer
  2. austerest
  3. austerian
  4. austerianism
  5. austerians
  6. austeritarian
  7. austeritarianism
  8. austeritarians
  9. austerities
  10. austerity
  11. Austerlitz

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