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单词 big government
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big government
big government n. (also with capital initials) Politics (chiefly North American) government (esp. central or federal government) regarded as excessively powerful, interventionist, expensive, and intrusive in the lives of its citizens.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > the American government
big government1925
Washingtona1930
Feds1943
1925 D. Wilhelm in Forum Nov. 744 We have organized widely, and with astonishing thoroughness, to put pressures upon our members of Congress which make them the virtual slaves, not of their respective constituencies, but of groups vastly greater in power. These pressures..account largely for the affliction of Big Government.
1942 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 36 7 We shall have ‘big government’ functioning in a big way—more power wielded by public authority than ever before.., a more colossal mechanism of controls, a more numerous bureaucracy, [etc.].
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Nov. 7/1 The Big Blue Machine label attached to both the Government and the Conservative Party..calls to mind things that people don't like about politics and big Government—slickness, arrogance, indifference.
1990 D. Kavanagh Thatcherism & Brit. Politics (ed. 2) ix. 247 Her frequent denunciations of high levels of taxation and public expenditure, of big government, and of the diminution of individual freedom and choice are passionate and deeply felt.
2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 16 May a1/1 Opposition to ‘big government’ has led Congress and the White House to push control for welfare policy to states and localities.
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