单词 | europhoria |
释义 | Europhorian. Overwhelming or excessive optimism about European cooperation and integration, now esp. relating to the adoption of the euro as a common currency (cf. Euro n.2 1). ΚΠ 1971 Winnipeg Free Press 25 June 1/6 Europhoria swept over Britain today in the wake of successful agreement on terms for joining the Common Market. 1992 Economist 11 July (Suppl.) 14/2 It is a measure of the Europhoria of the late 1980s and early 1990s that the Danish peoples' No came as such a bombshell to all EC governments. 2001 Observer 23 Dec. i. 18/7 City traders are also questioning the widely held belief that the launch of the physical currency would lead to ‘europhoria’ in currency markets. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1971 |
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