thatcherism
/ˈθæ.t͡ʃə.ɹɪ.zəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "Thus “Thatcherism” is—give or take one or two elements—the corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Tory “philosophy” being conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects."
Etymology
From Thatcher + -ism. Popularized by Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in an article in Marxism Today, see quotations.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage