Big government
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Governance that consists of large-scale programs, numerous departments and employees, and that entails substantial spending, especially liberal or left-wing governance which emphasizes social entitlements and regulation, and that is considered intrusive by some citizens, especially by conservatives or right-wingers US, capitalized, sometimes, uncountable
"Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. […] "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government.""
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of big government. alt-of, uncountable
"This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best."
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More examples"Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. […] "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government.""