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Thatcherize

Thatcherize verb: to subject to Thatcherism.

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
    • This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy
  2. (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.

Forms of Thatcherize

third-person singular presentThatcherizes
present participleThatcherizing
past participleThatcherized
pastThatcherized
alternative formThatcherise

Origin of Thatcherize

From Thatcher + -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

Words formed from Thatcherize

Questions about Thatcherize

What does Thatcherize mean?
Thatcherize means to subject to Thatcherism.
What part of speech is Thatcherize?
Thatcherize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Thatcherize?
The past tense of Thatcherize is Thatcherized.

Words near Thatcherize in the dictionary

  1. Thatcherist
  2. Thatcherists
  3. Thatcherite
  4. Thatcherites
  5. Thatcherization
  6. Thatcherize
  7. Thatcherized
  8. Thatcherizes
  9. Thatcherizing
  10. Thatchernomics
  11. thatchers

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