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investorism

investorism noun: an ideology that stresses the importance of investment for the health of the economy.

Noun

investorism (uncountable)

  1. An ideology that stresses the importance of investment for the health of the economy.
    • Certainly for the foreseeable future the commission will be concerned with the contemporary issues of the day — consumerism, environmentalism, inflation, and now investorism. The new investorism comes as a result of investors' feeling that the PUC has given too much attention to consumers in the...1979, A. Janell Anderson, Decisionmaking in the California P.U.C, page 57
    • Contrary to mainstream Wall Street assumptions, it was the state that catalyzed both mass investment and investorism during the First World War through the mass selling of Liberty war bonds to some 30 million middle-class Americans.2009, Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, →ISBN, page 180

Examples of investorism in a sentence

  • Certainly for the foreseeable future the commission will be concerned with the contemporary issues of the day — consumerism, environmentalism, inflation, and now investorism.1979, A. Janell Anderson, Decisionmaking in the California P.U.C, page 57:
  • Indeed historian Julia Ott has shown how the federal government's impetus for the investing craze (known as “investorism”) built upon such an ideology.2012, Thomas Welskopp, Alan Lessoff, Fractured Modernity, →ISBN:

Origin of investorism

From investor + -ism.

Questions about investorism

What does investorism mean?
Investorism means an ideology that stresses the importance of investment for the health of the economy.
How do you use investorism in a sentence?
Certainly for the foreseeable future the commission will be concerned with the contemporary issues of the day — consumerism, environmentalism, inflation, and now investorism.
What part of speech is investorism?
Investorism is a noun.

Words near investorism in the dictionary

  1. investment strategy
  2. investments
  3. investomer
  4. investomers
  5. investor
  6. investorism
  7. investors
  8. investorship
  9. investorships
  10. investress
  11. investresses

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