| 单词 | dependency culture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdependency culture dependency culture n. chiefly British Politics a social or political environment characterized by dependency on the State (as through benefits or services) or other external support rather than individual enterprise. ΚΠ 1973 H. J. Rubin & I. S. Rubin in Asian Surv. 13 270 To succeed in promoting self-help this institution must reduce the effects of the traditional Thai dependency culture. 1990 D. Kavanagh Thatcherism & Brit. Politics (ed. 2) 295 Conservative spokesmen have said that people should reduce their expectations of what government can do and that economic improvements would depend largely on the action of people themselves. In a word, the dependency culture should be replaced by an enterprise one. 1998 Housing Agenda Apr. 8/2 The Budget was billed..as ‘the most serious assault on the dependency culture since the second world war’. < as lemmas |
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