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Eurosclerosis

Eurosclerosis noun: the European economic pattern of the 1980s of high unemployment and slow job creation in spite of overall economic growth, in contrast to the success of the United States at that time.

Noun

Eurosclerosis (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The European economic pattern of the 1980s of high unemployment and slow job creation in spite of overall economic growth, in contrast to the success of the United States at that time.

Origin of Eurosclerosis

From Euro- + sclerosis, by analogy with the medical condition.

Questions about Eurosclerosis

What does Eurosclerosis mean?
Eurosclerosis means the European economic pattern of the 1980s of high unemployment and slow job creation in spite of overall economic growth, in contrast to the success of the United States at that time.
What part of speech is Eurosclerosis?
Eurosclerosis is a noun.

Words near Eurosclerosis in the dictionary

  1. euros
  2. eurosceptic
  3. Eurosceptical
  4. Euroscepticism
  5. eurosceptics
  6. Eurosclerosis
  7. Eurosiberian
  8. eurosid
  9. eurosids
  10. euroskeptic
  11. Euroskeptical

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