austerity
Example Sentences
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The budget proposed by the government in December included a number of austerity measures.
Despite the concessions, the new budget still translates to spending cuts for nearly all ministries, advancing Milei’s austerity agenda.
And yet there’s something admirable in their scrappy monumentality, particularly during this time of Hollywood largesse for franchises and austerity for just about everything else.
Spending caps function less as austerity than as coordination devices, preventing signaling arms races that drive up costs without improving welfare.
In 1970s Britain people were looking for a "signal of hope", says vintage decor collector Lucy Scott, in a time of austerity, trade union action and miners' strikes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
