guns and butter
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Defense and social government spending, especially when seen as a trade-off.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
guns or butter (alternative)
guns versus butter (alternative)