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Thatcherise

Thatcherise is the alternative spelling of Thatcherize.

Meaning of Thatcherize

Verb

Thatcherize (third-person singular simple present Thatcherizes, present participle Thatcherizing, simple past and past participle Thatcherized)

  1. (UK, transitive) To subject to Thatcherism.
    • Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister
  2. (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.

Forms of Thatcherise

third-person singular presentThatcherises
present participleThatcherising
past participleThatcherised
pastThatcherised

Questions about Thatcherise

What is Thatcherise the alternative spelling of?
Thatcherise is the alternative spelling of Thatcherize.

Words near Thatcherise in the dictionary

  1. thatcher's rake
  2. thatcher's rakes
  3. Thatcheresque
  4. Thatcherian
  5. Thatcherisation
  6. Thatcherise
  7. Thatcherised
  8. Thatcherises
  9. Thatcherising
  10. Thatcherism
  11. Thatcherist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Thatcherise (page history and authors); Thatcherize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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