monetarist en · ADJ
Etymology
From monetary + -ist, from Latin monetarius, from monēta. By surface analysis, Latin monet(a) + -arist.
Meanings
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Of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.
In May 1979 Margaret Thatcher became prime minister promising to end the inflation that had plagued the country for nearly a decade, by imposing heavy restrictions on the growth of the money supply. Over the next five years, monetarist policies succeeded in plunging the British economy into the deepest recession it had seen since the great depression. […] Fast forward to March 2014, and the Bank of England has begun to bury its monetarist legacy.
2014 March 22, Philip Pilkington, “Monetarism is the living dead of economic theory – let's kill it off”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most monetarist | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more monetarist | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (5)
fi monetaristi (of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism) · es monetarista (of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism) · ga airgeadaíoch (of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism) · el μονεταριστικός (of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism) · cs monetaristický (of, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism)