austerity
austere quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness.
Usually austerities. ascetic practices: austerities of monastery life.
harsh economic policies, as increased taxes or decreased funding for social services, usually adopted in response to government debt or deficits (often used attributively): Economic growth slowed under austerity.The legislature tried to reduce the budget deficit with austerity measures that raised the retirement age and cut pension benefits.
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How to use austerity in a sentence
Amid the economic crisis, with memories of austerity measures from past years still fresh, the nation voted to slash public spending on governance by chopping the size of its legislatures by a third.
This is a non-starter in the post-pandemic age of austerity.
The Self-Driving Car Is a Red Herring - Issue 92: Frontiers | Anthony Townsend | October 21, 2020 | NautilusEconomic stability was promptly replaced by recession and austerity in financial capitals and small towns around the world.
How digitalization could help American states and cities bounce back from the COVID recession | matthewheimer | October 7, 2020 | FortuneThough DeJoy put some austerity measures on hold — since backstopped by four court orders — and called the timely delivery of election mail his “sacred” duty, suspicions persist.
In Detroit, chronic USPS delays undermine voters’ confidence in voting by mail | Lisa Rein, Kayla Ruble | October 5, 2020 | Washington PostEducation leaders immediately compared it to the devastating austerity of the Great Recession.
How Los Angeles and San Diego Unified Started Driving State Education Policy | Will Huntsberry | July 29, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Now cities are largely on their own, as austerity and gridlock grip Washington.
Can America’s Favorite Ex-Con Mayor Win Again? | David Freedlander | June 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOur debates about federal budgets still revolve around degrees of imposed austerity.
The Tea Party Is Dead? Nah, That’s Just a Flesh Wound | Michael Tomasky | May 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLast weekend, demonstrators took to the streets of Italy's capital to protest against government-imposed austerity measures.
A big theme for the last several months has been the end of fiscal austerity.
Walmart is about to teach everybody a lesson in how austerity can affect the consumer economy—and quick.
It now became evident to him that both he and the Brethren had hitherto manifested insufficient austerity in life and doctrine.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kiellandausterity banishes familiarity from family life and engenders constraint.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellThe extreme plainness of her dress lent an air of austerity to her face, and her features were proud and grave.
An Episode Under the Terror | Honore de BalzacThis proposal is, in our judgment, a bold attempt to get back the "Principles of 1834" in all their austerity.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbShe viewed life with a certain austerity, and in literature she had fortified herself against the shocks of time.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson
British Dictionary definitions for austerity
/ (ɒˈstɛrɪtɪ) /
the state or quality of being austere
(often plural) an austere habit, practice, or act
reduced availability of luxuries and consumer goods, esp when brought about by government policy
(as modifier): an austerity budget
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