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Meaning of Singapore-on-Thames | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A proposed model for the United Kingdom after Brexit, involving laissez-faire free trade unencumbered by regulation.

UK

Examples

“The idea that London might have a post-Brexit future as a kind of deregulated “Singapore-on-Thames” is one of the more curious notions to have emerged in the three and a half years since the UK’s citizens voted narrowly to leave the EU in the fateful June 2016 referendum.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

Singapore-style noodles Singaporean Singaporean core Singaporean English Singaporeanism Singaporeanization