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Thatcherism

/ˈθæ.t͡ʃə.ɹɪ.zəm/

Thatcherism proper noun: the political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.

Proper noun

Thatcherism

  1. (UK) The political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.
    • Thus “Thatcherism” is—give or take one or two elements—the corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Tory “philosophy” being conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects.1979 January, Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show”, in Marxism Today, page 14

Thatcherism meaning in Malayalam and Thai

Thatcherism in Malayalam

താച്ചറിസം

Thatcherism in Thai

political ideology of Thatcher's governments
ลัทธิแทตเชอร์ lát-tí tɛ̂ɛt-chəə

Origin of Thatcherism

From Thatcher + -ism. Popularized by Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in an article in Marxism Today, see quotations.

Words formed from Thatcherism

Questions about Thatcherism

What does Thatcherism mean?
Thatcherism means the political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.
What is Thatcherism in Malayalam?
Thatcherism in Malayalam is താച്ചറിസം. See Thatcherism meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is Thatcherism?
Thatcherism is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Thatcherism?
Thatcherism is pronounced /ˈθæ.t͡ʃə.ɹɪ.zəm/.

Words near Thatcherism in the dictionary

  1. Thatcherisation
  2. Thatcherise
  3. Thatcherised
  4. Thatcherises
  5. Thatcherising
  6. Thatcherism
  7. Thatcherist
  8. Thatcherists
  9. Thatcherite
  10. Thatcherites
  11. Thatcherization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Thatcherism (page history and authors); Thatcherism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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