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Thatcherize en · VERB

Etymology

From Thatcher + -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

Meanings

  1. (UK, transitive) To subject to Thatcherism.
    • This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […] 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:
    • Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet. 1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:
  2. (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Thatcherise alternative lexicographic
Thatcherizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
Thatcherizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
Thatcherized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
Thatcherized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

Thatcherization

Relateds

Thatcherise · Thatcherist · Thatcherism · Thatchernomics · Thatcher's children · Thatcheresque · Thatcherian · Thatcherite · Thatcherisation · Thatcher effect · Thatcher illusion