Thatcherize
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Thatcher + -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).
Verb
[edit]Thatcherize (third-person singular simple present Thatcherizes, present participle Thatcherizing, simple past and past participle Thatcherized)
- (transitive, UK politics) To subject to Thatcherism.
- 1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:
- Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.
- 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:
- This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]
- (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.