单词 | social credit |
释义 | Social Creditn. 1. Also with lower-case initials. An economic theory advocating that consumer purchasing power should be increased either by subsidizing producers so that they can reduce prices or by distributing the profits of industry to the general public; a movement advocating this. Also occasionally: a subsidy paid under this system.Social Credit was first proposed by C. H. Douglas (see Douglas n.4). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > social credit Social Credit1920 1920 A. R. Orage in C. H. Douglas Credit-Power & Democracy 166 The effect is inherent in the separation of Real Credit from Financial Credit—Social Credit, that is to say, from Financial Credit privately controlled. 1922 C. H. Douglas Labour Party & Social Credit 17 It is an important Report, not..as advancing any valid..criticism of the principles or details of Social Credit. 1936 S. E. Thomas This Social Credit Business 16 If the A + B Theorem is sound, what is the necessity for ‘National Dividends’ as well as Social Credits to retailers? 1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? xi. 84 The apostles of Social Credit once actually persuaded a Canadian legislature to budget on its imaginary riches. 1974 ‘E. McGirr’ Murderous Journey 127 Ricardo's political grin..calculated to warm the cockles of any voter way back to Douglas Social Credit. 2003 M. Hilton Consumerism in Twentieth-cent. Brit. iii. 98 Social credit has never been able to cast off its associations with fascism. 2. A political party advocating Social Credit.The most prominent of these parties were the Social Credit Party in Canada and the Social Credit Political League in New Zealand. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > types of party generally (in various countries) country party1648 war-party1798 Conservative Party1830 Progressive Party1830 national party1847 Labour Party1850 Nationalist Party1884 Social Credit1935 Third Force1936 third force1956 demandeur1966 People's Power1974 Green Party1977 1935 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 23 Mar. 7/1 Social Credit is gaining strength to the point where if an election were called now it would carry 75 per cent of the rural seats. 1953 C. B. Macpherson Democracy in Alberta viii. 215 What is the underlying nature of the radicalism of the U.F.A. and Social Credit? 1966 R. S. Milne Polit. Parties N.Z. iii. 78 Potentially, therefore, the Democrats, Democratic Labour, and Social Credit were ‘national’ parties. 1982 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 13 Mar. I don't believe that it's possible for me to carry on as leader of Social Credit with the problems that have been unresolved. 1996 J. Boston et al. New Zealand under MMP iv. 47 Neither Social Credit nor Values were splinter parties. Compounds General attributive, as Social Credit leader, Social Credit League, Social Credit movement, Social Credit Party, Social Credit scheme, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > other national politics > [noun] > Canadian politics > specific party Liberal Party1814 Socred1955 Social Credit Party1958 Parti Québécois1968 society > authority > rule or government > politics > other national politics > [noun] > Canadian politics > specific associations patron1870 Social Credit League1961 society > authority > rule or government > politics > other national politics > [noun] > specific New Zealand principles, parties, or partisans Red Fed1912 Red-Fedism1917 national1938 Nat1939 Socred1975 Rogernomics1985 Social Credit League1986 1922 C. H. Douglas Labour Party & Social Credit 29 The Social Credit Movement..is in sharp opposition to the official Labour Party and High Finance jointly. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 12 Ain't you ever 'eard me speak o' the principles of Social Credit Reform? 1935 Economist 29 June 1474/1 A Social Credit scheme for Alberta under which he promised to guarantee every adult inhabitant of the Province $25 per week. 1958 Time (Canadian ed.) 15 Sept. 16/3 The leader of the badly mauled Social Credit party. 1961 Canada Month Nov. 11/3 The B.C. Social Credit League offered alternative solutions to his problem. 1966 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept iv. 106 Douglas's Social Credit system (or a partial form of it) was tried out by Alberta, Canada, in the inter-war years. 1969 N.Z. News 5 Nov. 8/5 The Social Credit Leader, Mr. Cracknell, may have all too often been dismissed as something of a political lightweight. 1986 G. Sartori in B. Grofman & A. Lijphart Electoral Laws & Polit. Consequences (2003) ii. 66 New Zealand's Social Credit League (that occasionally wins one or, once, two seats). 2007 I. B. Nadel Cambr. Introd. Ezra Pound iii. 94 Por convinced Pound that Mussolini's regime was on its way to adopting Social Credit policies. Derivatives ˌSocial ˈCreditor n. (also Social Crediter) an advocate of Social Credit; a member of a political party advocating Social Credit. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > social credit > adherent of Social Creditor1934 Social Creditist1963 1934 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 17 Aug. 1/5 The Social Creditors are at present within the U.F.A. ranks. 1938 Social Crediter 17 Sept. 2/1 What I (a Social Crediter) should say to that, is that I don't know whether Sir Oswald agrees with me or not. 1953 M. Lowry Sel. Lett. (1967) 337 The Social Crediters fell, after having made some demonstrations of power. 1997 I. Richards To Bed at Noon v. 233 Because the poet was a Social Crediter the police had decided Strewe must be a communist. ˌSocial ˈCreditist n. [compare slightly earlier Créditiste n.] = Social Creditor n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > social credit > adherent of Social Creditor1934 Social Creditist1963 1963 Daily Tel. 31 Oct. 14/2 The Social Creditists, appealing mainly to Quebec nationalism, could muster only 27 votes against 210. 2001 Star Phoenix (Sask.) (Nexis) 5 July a10 The failed and divisive attempts at reform by the Progressives and Social Creditists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1920 |
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