beggar-my-neighbour
Britishnoun
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a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
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(modifier) relating to or denoting an advantage gained by one side at the expense of the other
beggar-my-neighbour policies
Example Sentences
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A single currency demands disciplines and painful trade-offs: but floating exchange rates after a financial crisis are a transmission mechanism for bank-runs and beggar-my-neighbour devaluations.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013
Via export drives or currency devaluation we now risk the beggar-my-neighbour tactics which bedevilled the recovery in the 30s.
From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2013
After the second world war, the international community created the IMF in order to smoothe out balance of payments imbalances, prevent beggar-my-neighbour currency wars and control movements of capital.
From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2013
How far beggar-my-neighbour competitive devaluations and protection will develop is hard to predict, but protectionist trends are there for all to see.
From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011
Diplomacy is after all a simple game—even elementary—a magnificent beggar-my-neighbour which we continue to play into eternity.'
From A Modern Mercenary by Prichard, K. (Kate)
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