Austeritarian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.
"And for your Sunday night delectation, we have a reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians…"
- 1 Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity.
"The will to convene this Summit of the peoples and alternatives is based on a call (www.altersummit.eu ) that identifies the fundamentally political dimension of the EU crisis : the austeritarian answers are chosen knowingly although they aggravate the crisis, to impose a failover of the social order to an ultra-liberal model - at the cost of millions of jobs, abrupt social decline and significant threats to democracy itself."
Example
More examples"And for your Sunday night delectation, we have a reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians…"
Etymology
From austerity + -arian.
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