Thatcherize
English
Alternative forms
- Thatcherise
Etymology
Thatcher + -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).
Verb
Thatcherize (third-person singular simple present Thatcherizes, present participle Thatcherizing, simple past and past participle Thatcherized)
- (transitive, politics) To subject to Thatcherism.
- 1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:
- Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.
- 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:
- This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]
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- (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.
Derived terms
- Thatcherization
Related terms
- Thatcher effect
- Thatcheresque
- Thatcherian
- Thatcher illusion
- Thatcherism
- Thatcherist
- Thatcherite
- Thatchernomics
- Thatcher's children