killingry
killingry noun: the systems and institutions which lead to killing, considered collectively.
Noun
killingry (uncountable)
- The systems and institutions which lead to killing, considered collectively.
- That's a very simplified reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Soviet Union collapsed because it went bankrupt due to placing more importance on emphasis on military spending than economic investment. More killingry and less livingry.1995 July 5, Michael R Swanson, “Creating a New Civilization (fwd)”, in bit.listserv.geodesic (Usenet)
- The irony of course, was that Brand understood that most of the financing for Engelbart's work was flowing from the fount of "killingry"—the government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.2017, Jonathan Taplin, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, unnumbered page
- Antonyms:
- livingry
Antonyms of killingry
Origin of killingry
Coined by American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller from killing + -ry, modelled on weaponry.
Questions about killingry
- What does killingry mean?
- Killingry means the systems and institutions which lead to killing, considered collectively.
- What part of speech is killingry?
- Killingry is a noun.
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