austérité
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin austēritās.[1] By surface analysis, austère + -ité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]austérité f (plural austérités)
- austerity, severity, rigidity
- destitution
- (economics) deficit cutting
- politique d’austérité ― policy of deficit-cutting
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “austérité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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