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‖ Wirtschaft rare.|ˈvɪrtʃaft|
In 9 Wirth-.
[Ger.]
1. Domestic economy, housekeeping.
1850C. M. Yonge Henrietta's Wish ii. 21 The house..was very soon pretty and cheerful, and the wirthschaft..well ordered and economical. 1889― Reputed Changeling I. viii. 138 The Doctor..[asked] whether the ladies abroad were given to housewifery. ‘The German dames make a great ado about their Wirthschaft, as they call it..but as to the result! pah!’
2. [Ger., short for gastwirtschaft, f. gast guest n.] = Wirtshaus.
1903G. W. Hartley Wild Sport iii. 60 They had some beer at a snug little wirtschaft, and then they all fished. 1950E. Hemingway Across River xxxviii. 269 What is there to eat in this Wirtschaft?
Hence ˈWirtschaftswunder, (erron.) -schaftwunder |-ˌvʊndər|, the ‘economic miracle’ of West Germany, i.e. the substantial and lasting recovery in its economic state and standard of living following the war of 1939–45; also transf.
1959Times 13 Mar. 16/3 Some of the pot-holes in the present age of prosperity, the Wirtschaftswunder, are laid bare in a manner that leaves little to the imagination. 1961Times 10 Apr. 11/6 A Wirtschaftswunder incomparably greater than the Federal Republic's. 1965Punch 22 Sept. 411/1 The peoples of both India and Pakistan are shockingly poor... There is no possibility here of miraculous recovery, the Wirtschaftwunder. 1980‘D. Grant’ Emerald Decision i. 14 My daughters..are products of the Socialist wirtschaftwunder. 1983London Mag. July 62/1 The Germany of the mind's eye; not..the concrete cities of the Wirtschaftswunder. |