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dirigiste
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dirigiste (comparative more dirigiste, superlative most dirigiste)
- Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
- 1982, Norman Barry, “The Tradition of Spontaneous Order”, in Literature of Liberty, volume 5, number 2, page 10:
- The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony.
- 2022, Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams, “Strange Times”, in Hegemony Now, London: Verso, →ISBN, part III:
- Certainly, popular demands and the force of circumstances have already pushed the Biden administration towards a dirigiste programme of government-led recovery that has no real precedent since the 1960s.
Translations
controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy
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Noun
dirigiste (plural dirigistes)
- An advocate or practitioner of dirigisme.
- 2019 July 1, David Brooks, “Moderates Have the Better Story”, in The New York Times:
- Warren wants to centralize economic decisions, creating a Department of Economic Development — a top-down council of government dirigistes.
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Translations
advocate of dirigisme
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
dirigiste (plural dirigistes)
- (relational) of dirigisme; dirigiste
Noun
dirigiste m or f by sense (plural dirigistes)
Further reading
- “dirigiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Adjective
dirigiste
Noun
dirigiste f
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Portuguese
Verb
dirigiste
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
dirigiste
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