Singaporean core
English
Etymology
Coined in the Singapore-government White Paper population policy in January 2013.
Pronunciation
- (SIN) IPA(key): /sɪŋəˈpɒɹɪən ˈkɔː/
Noun
Singaporean core pl (plural only)
- Singaporeans having birthright citizenship because they are descended from settlers in Singapore prior to independence in 1965.
- 2013 December 1, Faizal Bin Yahya, National University of Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies Developing a Singaporean Core in our Workforce:
- In his New Year’s Day Message 2013, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted the need to maintain a strong Singaporean core in the country’s population policy.
- 2015 July 8, Adrian Tan, The Middle Ground: Keeping the Singapore core of PMEs employed:
- EP applications for selected firms with a “weaker Singaporean core of PMEs relative to others in their industry” will be scrutinised more closely.
- 2015 July 23, Channel News Asia:
- In an interview published by Time magazine on Thursday, Mr Lee said the country must have a solid Singaporean core.
- 2015 September 18, Calvin Yang, The Straits Times (Singapore) Indranee: Building economy while keeping Singaporean core a “tricky balancing act”:
- "And that is a very tricky balancing act to do, because you must not have so many people coming in from the outside that your own local, Singaporean core is eroded."
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