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Thatcherism

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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.

UK

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Españolthatcherismo
Françaisthatchérisme
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Examples

ThusThatcherism” is—give or take one or two elementsthe corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Toryphilosophybeing conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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