noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The European economic pattern of the 1980s of high unemployment and slow job creation in spite of overall economic growth, in contrast to the success of the United States at that time. informal, uncountable

Etymology

From Euro- + sclerosis, by analogy with the medical condition.

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