Meaning of guns and butter | Babel Free

Definitions

Defense and social government spending, especially when seen as a trade-off.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“With colleagues clamouring for money, it suits him to say we cannot have both guns and butter.”

“Having to service demands for both guns and butter, the US economy began to overheat; inflation ensued.”

“The experience of “military Keynesianism” globally, and across history, has never been about guns or butter, but guns and butter.”

CEFR level