Thatcherize
verbEtymology From Thatcher + -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).
1
Government, Politics UK To subject to Thatcherism.
- Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:
- This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:
2
To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.
- Derived terms
- Thatcherization
- Related terms
- Thatcher effect, Thatcheresque, Thatcherian, Thatcher illusion, Thatcherisation, Thatcherise, Thatcherism, Thatcherist, Thatcherite, Thatchernomics, Thatcher's children