Reaganomicsn.
/ˌreɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/, U.S. /ˌreɪɡəˈnɑmɪks/ U.S. Politics.
With singular agreement. The economic policies of Reagan, associated esp. with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity.
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Clintonomics1992
1970 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 16 July 7/5 The working people of California are paying dearly for lessons in Reaganomics that we don't need.
1980 N.Y. Times 9 May a30/4 Reaganomics rests on an assumption that is dubious at best, and very probably false.
1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 2 Mar. 32/3 The whole purpose of Reaganomics was to return the country to a pre-Roosevelt period, a laissez faire, dog-eat-dog society.
2003 K. Hosseini Kite Runner (2004) xi. 110 Most of our neighbors in Fremont were..exactly the sort of blue-collar people who would soon suffocate under the pillow of Reaganomics pressed to their faces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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