单词 | pan-germany |
释义 | pan-Germanyn. 1. Frequently with capital initial. A notional country incorporating all German-speaking peoples. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Germanic region > [noun] Teutondom1880 pan-Germany1902 1902 Q. Rev. July 161 What the Pan-German League wants is..a ‘Greater Germany’, or as the exponents of this idea would say, a ‘Pan-Germany’. 1943 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 37 908 To his mind, such a plan would only mean the stifling of Norwegian trade and shipping as well as a new subjugation, under another name, to Germany's New Order, to Pan-Germany or Mittel-Europa. 1989 Past & Present 122 234 His recollection of spring 1939 was that Poland fitted in with Hitler's plans for living-space and Pan-Germany. 2. Modern Germany, as the reunification of East and West Germany.Used chiefly in relation to the economic performance of the reunified country as a whole, in recognition of the fact the relevant statistics usually stem from the combination of greatly differing figures in the east and the west. ΚΠ 1990 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 2: Eastern Europe (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 7 Feb. EE/0682/C/1 There is opposition to the idea of a military—and I repeat, military—neutralisation of the future Pan-Germany. 1991 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 24 Mar. 15 Pan-Germany's public-sector deficit will rise by a third this year, raising concern among its Western partners about its interest-rate policy. 1998 Financial Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. 41 German inflation slowed to 1.1 per cent in February, its lowest level since pan-Germany inflation was calculated in 1991. 2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 Mar. 4 The pan-Germany unadjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged from January at 10.4 per cent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1902 |
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