the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
boosterism in American English
(ˈbustərˌɪzəm)
US
noun
the practice of boosting or promoting a city, resort, etc.
boosterism in American English
(ˈbuːstəˌrɪzəm)
noun
the action or policy of enthusiastically promoting something, as a city, product, or way of life
boosterism about the latest world's fair
Word origin
[1910–15; booster + -ism]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: carbon cycle, cat and mouse, grass roots, insulin, radio-ism is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nounsfrom verbs (baptism). On this model, -ism is used as a productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or practice,state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or characteristic, devotion oradherence, etc. (criticism; barbarism; Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism)
Examples of 'boosterism' in a sentence
boosterism
Buried amid the techno-zealotry and boosterism of this book are some fascinating observations.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Boosterism is a besetting sin of second cities, even of their most learned and judicious partisans.