Beveridge

American  

[bev-er-ij, bev-rij] / ˈbɛv ər ɪdʒ, ˈbɛv rɪdʒ /

noun

1. Albert Jeremiah, 1862–1927, U.S. senator and historian.

2. Sir William Henry, 1879–1963, English economist.

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Beveridge British  

/ ˈbɛvərɪdʒ /

noun

1. William Henry , 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain

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Example Sentences

More fundamentally, the attack on Iran will only reinforce China’s bid for energy self-reliance, said Neil Beveridge, who tracks China’s energy sector at Bernstein Research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Beveridge is among those calling for a smartphone ban in schools and a social media ban for under-16s.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Mark Beveridge, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: "Our proposals aim to reduce the total adverse effects of noise from aircraft, improve capacity and minimise delays, and lower emissions per flight through more direct routing."

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

“The U.S. labor market is now perilously close to the ‘kink’ in the Beveridge curve — the point where falling openings tend to correspond to rapidly rising unemployment,” says Peter Berezin, chief global strategist.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Among these theories which seek to account not for crises but for the cyclical fluctuations of economic activity, the "competition theory" tentatively advanced by Beveridge is one of the simplest.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur