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单词 austerity budget
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austerity budget
General attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or suitable for a time of austerity (sense 4)’, as austerity budget, austerity clothing, austerity measures, austerity programme, etc. Cf. utility n. Compounds 3b(c).
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1942 Times 16 Mar. 7/1 It is clear from the new so-called austerity measures that stricter control of spending has an immediate part..in government policy.
1942 Times of India 31 Dec. 8/4 The first of a fleet of ‘austerity’ buses has just been completed in Britain... Fittings are kept to essentials and anything approaching luxury has been..cut out.
1944 Times 16 Feb. 8/3 Mr. Dalton..said that austerity clothing was not unsaleable. On the contrary, many men evidently thought that at 20 coupons austerity suits were a good bargain.
1951 R. A. Knox Stimuli iv. 9 There is a real humility in imitating a God who was born in a utility nursery, and laid in an austerity cradle to match it.
1968 Fortune Jan. 112/1 An austerity program calls for some belt-tightening by the government as well as by the citizenry.
2001 N.Y. Times 29 July i. 26/5 In Buffalo, the school system's associate superintendent for finance..called the austerity budget ‘a devastator’.
2010 Guardian 22 May (Money section) 1/1 Welcome to ‘austerity chic’.
2012 Independent 8 May 16/4 George Osborne tells Andrew Marr that he hears what the electorate is saying, but he is not prepared to review his austerity measures.
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