big government

British  

noun

1. derogatory a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power

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Example Sentences

Its reports are released alongside big government events such as the Budget.

From BBC

As Yale historian Beverly Gage explores in “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” her Pulitzer-winning 2023 biography, Hoover embodied two apparently contradictory strains of right-wing ideology: a mistrust of “big government” — or at least of government social programs — as de facto socialism, and an embrace of coercive state power on a grand scale.

From Salon

In 2020 American Compass defended organized labor as a means for combating big government, writing: “We prefer the private ordering of bargains between workers and management to overbearing dictates from Washington.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Whether you believe in small government or big government, government has to provide for somebody, somehow."

From BBC

If Dyer has grown sentimental about the England of his upbringing, his nostalgia is a subtle critique of how optimism in big government has grown worse for wear — “Homework” bursts with working-class pride, a fond and mournful belief in the possibility of the British welfare state.

From Los Angeles Times