neoliberalism

English

Etymology

From neo- +‎ liberalism.

Noun

neoliberalism (countable and uncountable, plural neoliberalisms)

1. (often derogatory) A political ideology or ideological trend based on neoclassical economics that espouses economic liberalism, favouring trade liberalisation, financial deregulation, a small government, privatisation and liberalisation of government businesses, passive antitrust enforcement, accepting greater economic inequality and disfavouring unionisation.

   Synonyms: economic rationalism, market liberalism

   Hypernym: capitalism

   Hyponyms: Reaganomics, Rogernomics, Thatcherism

   • 2016 November 17, Cornel West, “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The age of Obama was the last gasp of neoliberalism. Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad.

2. (US) The ideology associated with the New Democrats and the Democratic Leadership Council.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• neoliberal
• neoliberalist
• neoliberalistic
• neoliberally

Translations

political ideology

• Afrikaans: neoliberalisme m
• Arabic: نِيُولِيبِرَالِيَّة f (niyūlībirāliyya)
• Catalan: neoliberalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新自由主義 / 新自由主义 (xīnzìyóuzhǔyì)

• Czech: neoliberalizmus m
• Dutch: neoliberalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: novliberalismo
• Finnish: neoliberalismi, uusliberalismi (fi)
• French: néolibéralisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ნეოლიბერალიზმი (neoliberalizmi)
• German: Neoliberalismus (de) m
• Greek: νεοφιλελευθερισμός (el) m (neofileleftherismós)
• Hungarian: neoliberalizmus (hu), újliberalizmus
• Icelandic: nýfrjálshyggja f
• Interlingua: neoliberalismo
• Italian: neoliberismo (it) m
• Kazakh: жаңа либерализм (jaña liberalizm)
• Polish: neoliberalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: neoliberalismo m
• Spanish: neoliberalismo (es) m
• Swedish: nyliberalism (sv) n
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa tự do mới, chủ nghĩa tân tự do

Further reading

• neoliberalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French néolibéralisme. By surface analysis, neo- +‎ liberalism or neoliberal +‎ -ism.

Noun

neoliberalism n (uncountable)

1. neoliberalism

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	neoliberalism	neoliberalismul		neoliberalisme	neoliberalismele
genitive-dative	neoliberalism	neoliberalismului		neoliberalisme	neoliberalismelor
vocative	neoliberalismule			neoliberalismelor

Related terms

• neoliberal