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dirigisme en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɪɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈdiɚɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/ (US)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“direct, steer”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters.
    • In the name of development, the reformed states adopted the dirigisme of colonial administration – forced labour re-emerged in them as well. 2011, Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, page 113:
    • These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system. 1991, James M. Buchanan, The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, Cato Journal 11:2

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dirigismes Number=Plur lexicographic
dirigism alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

dirigiste

Relateds

dirigible · directorate · directionality · statism · directorship · dictatorship

Translations (7)

ca dirigisme (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy) · fr dirigisme (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy) · cs dirigismus (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy) · it dirigismo (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy) · cmn 统制经济 (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy) · el διευθυντισμός (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy) · id dirigisme (directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy)