Ruthanasia

noun

Ruthanasia

noun

Etymology Blend of Ruth + euthanasia, in reference to the National Party's Minister of Finance, Ruth Richardson.

Government, Politics New Zealand, Derogatory, Slang The period of free-market economic reform conducted during the first term of the fourth National government in New Zealand, from 1990 to 1993.

Rogernomics has been succeeded by Richardson's Ruthanasia.1991, New Statesman Society, volume 4:

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