dirigiste

English

Alternative forms

• dirigist

Etymology

Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪɹəˈʒist/, /dɪɹɪˈʒist/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Audio (US):

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Adjective

dirigiste (comparative more dirigiste, superlative most dirigiste)

1. 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

• Czech: dirigistický
• German: dirigistisch (de)
• Italian: dirigistico
• Spanish: dirigista (es)
• Swedish: dirigistisk

See also

• statist

Noun

dirigiste (plural dirigistes)

1. 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.

Related terms

• dirigisme

Translations

advocate of dirigisme

• Czech: dirigista m

Anagrams

• digitiser

French

Etymology

From diriger +‎ -iste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʁi.ʒist/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: dirigistes
• Rhymes: -ist

Adjective

dirigiste (plural dirigistes)

1. (relational) of dirigisme; dirigiste

Noun

dirigiste m or f by sense (plural dirigistes)

1. dirigiste (advocate of dirigisme)

Further reading

• “dirigiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

dirigiste

1. feminine plural of dirigista

Noun

dirigiste f

1. plural of dirigista

Anagrams

• digeristi, dirigesti

Portuguese

Verb

dirigiste

1. second-person singular preterite indicative of dirigir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diɾiˈxiste/ [d̪i.ɾiˈxis.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: di‧ri‧gis‧te

Verb

dirigiste

1. second-person singular preterite indicative of dirigir