trade bazooka
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Anti-Coercion Instrument, a European Union regulation since 2023, aiming to protect the EU and its member states from economic coercion by third countries by providing a framework for EU action and countermeasures.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "As a deepening crisis threatens the future of Nato, European leaders are considering deploying their so-called trade ‘bazooka’ for the first time in retaliation, an economic tool that would hit the US with £81billion in tariffs."
- "And after the threat of the European Union’s anti-coercion instrument, the so-called trade bazooka allowing rapid counter tariffs, forced Mr. Trump to back down from his early round of Greenland threats, the Europeans now know that they have their own Strait of Hormuz — their own pain point that can make America flinch."
- "Mr Trump has put renegotiating the 22-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico high on his list of priorities. With his threat this week to impose a "big border tax" on GM cars made in Mexico he also levelled a trade bazooka at the regional supply chains that exist under Nafta."
- "The EU’s top trade civil servant, Sabine Weyand, is in D.C. today for trade talks with the Trump administration, reports POLITICO Europe’s Jakob Hanke. […] Weyand’s visit comes as commissioners in Brussels are set to greenlight a new trade bazooka aimed squarely at the U.S. in the form of new tariffs."
- "With their 3900 farmer members staring down the barrel of a Chinese trade bazooka, you might think the directors of Australia's biggest co-operative would be focused on fighting the trade war and saving the barley industry."
Usage
Inflected Forms
the trade bazooka (canonical)
trade bazookas (plural)