government stroke
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The deliberately slow pace of work supposed to be typical of government workers.
Australian usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Why not just leave things as they are and say, "We are going to run this government organisation efficiently; we are going to make sure that the government stroke has disappeared, that the managers are on the ball and that the customers get good service"."