Wirtschaftswundern.

Brit.

/ˈvɪətʃaftsˌvʊndə/, U.S.

/ˈvɪ(ə)rtʃæftsˌvʊndər/

Forms: 1900s– Wirthschaftswunder, 1900s– Wirtschaftswunder, 1900s– Wirtschaftwunder (irregular). Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Wirtschaftswunder.

Etymology: < German Wirtschaftswunder, literally ‘economic miracle’ (1926 or earlier with reference to the American economy in the years before 1914; 1927 or earlier with allusion to the German economy c1890–1914; c1955 in specific use below, now the usual sense) < the genitive of Wirtschaft economy (see Wirtschaft n.) + Wunder wonder n.With the form Wirthschaftswunder compare variants at Wirtschaft n. In form Wirtschaftwunder reflecting the nominative form of the first element of the etymon.

A seemingly miraculous economic improvement; spec. the economic recovery of the Federal Republic of West Germany after the Second World War (1939–45).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth > specific 'economic miracle'

Wirtschaftswunder1938

Asian miracle1982

1926 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 May 10/2 Das Amerikanische Wirtschaftswunder (The Economic Miracle of America). By Professor Dr. Hirsch, ex-Secretary of State.]

1938 M. Beard Hist. Business Man xxvii. 736 German industrialists..returned home convinced that Americans had at last put industry and commerce on a high plateau of permanent prosperity. In their opinion, a ‘Wirtschaftswunder’, an economic miracle, had been performed.

1959 Times 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.

1965 Punch 22 Sept. 411/1 The peoples of both India and Pakistan are shockingly poor... There is no possibility here of miraculous recovery, the Wirtschaftwunder.

1983 London Mag. July 62/1 The Germany of the mind's eye; not..the concrete cities of the Wirtschaftswunder.

2003 Independent 30 July i. 3/7 At first, the Beetle became a symbol of the Wirtschaftswunder , the ‘miracle’ that transformed West Germany's economy in the 1950s.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wirtschaftswunder
释义	Wirtschaftswundern. Brit. /ˈvɪətʃaftsˌvʊndə/, U.S. /ˈvɪ(ə)rtʃæftsˌvʊndər/ Forms: 1900s– Wirthschaftswunder, 1900s– Wirtschaftswunder, 1900s– Wirtschaftwunder (irregular). Also with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Wirtschaftswunder. Etymology: < German Wirtschaftswunder, literally ‘economic miracle’ (1926 or earlier with reference to the American economy in the years before 1914; 1927 or earlier with allusion to the German economy c1890–1914; c1955 in specific use below, now the usual sense) < the genitive of Wirtschaft economy (see Wirtschaft n.) + Wunder wonder n.With the form Wirthschaftswunder compare variants at Wirtschaft n. In form Wirtschaftwunder reflecting the nominative form of the first element of the etymon. A seemingly miraculous economic improvement; spec. the economic recovery of the Federal Republic of West Germany after the Second World War (1939–45). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth > specific 'economic miracle' Wirtschaftswunder1938 Asian miracle1982 1926 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 May 10/2 Das Amerikanische Wirtschaftswunder (The Economic Miracle of America). By Professor Dr. Hirsch, ex-Secretary of State.] 1938 M. Beard Hist. Business Man xxvii. 736 German industrialists..returned home convinced that Americans had at last put industry and commerce on a high plateau of permanent prosperity. In their opinion, a ‘Wirtschaftswunder’, an economic miracle, had been performed. 1959 Times 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. 1965 Punch 22 Sept. 411/1 The peoples of both India and Pakistan are shockingly poor... There is no possibility here of miraculous recovery, the Wirtschaftwunder. 1983 London Mag. July 62/1 The Germany of the mind's eye; not..the concrete cities of the Wirtschaftswunder. 2003 Independent 30 July i. 3/7 At first, the Beetle became a symbol of the Wirtschaftswunder , the ‘miracle’ that transformed West Germany's economy in the 1950s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1938
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