Definition of Malthusian in English:
Malthusian
adjective malˈθjuːzɪənmælˈθ(j)uʒ(ə)n
Relating to or characteristic of the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus or his ideas about population.
it seems we face a curious Malthusian catastrophe
Example sentencesExamples
- The law represented a Malthusian challenge to the 18th-century policy of providing allowances to men whose earnings were insufficient to support their families.
- This seems to suggest the kind of limits within which the Malthusian view possesses a degree of validity.
- He felt that the Malthusian theory of population growth was at the basis of the erroneous wages-fund doctrine.
- He portrays the crisis phase primarily in Malthusian terms, the consequence of too many mouths feeding from too few acres of land.
- All creatures, the Malthusian argument runs, tend to increase in geometrical progression.
- I have always found his endorsement of the Malthusian population principle quite surprising.
- The Malthusian law is the basis of the environmental movement.
- Where the Malthusian argument falls down is in its general application.
- He comes to a Malthusian understanding that population is limited by means of subsistence.
- Darwin explicitly stated that his principle of 'natural selection' was the Malthusian principle for agents without foresight.
noun malˈθjuːzɪənmælˈθ(j)uʒ(ə)n
A person who supports the theories about population proposed by the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus.
Malthusians spoke of moral restraint
Example sentencesExamples
- He was politically and economically arch-conservative, an ardent Malthusian and opponent of immigration.
- He has noted that Brown on one occasion described himself as a Malthusian.
- It is no wonder the Malthusians want to get rid of economics.
- Today we are seeing the rise of another set of gloomy economists, who might be called 'reverse Malthusians'.
- The anarchists pointed to his own comments to prove that he was a Malthusian.
- Modern-day Malthusians have adopted the language of 'reproductive choice' and 'female empowerment'.
- The Malthusians are not only aware of their surroundings, they also react in different ways.
- As a Malthusian, he attended to the trade-off between sex and material income.
- Partly because they were Malthusians, they were environmentalists and they wanted to reduce the human population.
- It is worthy of remark that he was a professed Malthusian.
Definition of Malthusian in US English:
Malthusian
adjectivemælˈθ(j)uʒ(ə)nmalˈTH(y)o͞oZH(ə)n
Relating to or characteristic of the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus or his ideas about population.
it seems we face a curious Malthusian catastrophe
Example sentencesExamples
- The Malthusian law is the basis of the environmental movement.
- I have always found his endorsement of the Malthusian population principle quite surprising.
- He felt that the Malthusian theory of population growth was at the basis of the erroneous wages-fund doctrine.
- This seems to suggest the kind of limits within which the Malthusian view possesses a degree of validity.
- Darwin explicitly stated that his principle of 'natural selection' was the Malthusian principle for agents without foresight.
- He comes to a Malthusian understanding that population is limited by means of subsistence.
- He portrays the crisis phase primarily in Malthusian terms, the consequence of too many mouths feeding from too few acres of land.
- The law represented a Malthusian challenge to the 18th-century policy of providing allowances to men whose earnings were insufficient to support their families.
- Where the Malthusian argument falls down is in its general application.
- All creatures, the Malthusian argument runs, tend to increase in geometrical progression.
nounmælˈθ(j)uʒ(ə)nmalˈTH(y)o͞oZH(ə)n
A person who supports the theories about population proposed by the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus.
Malthusians spoke of moral restraint
Example sentencesExamples
- The Malthusians are not only aware of their surroundings, they also react in different ways.
- He has noted that Brown on one occasion described himself as a Malthusian.
- As a Malthusian, he attended to the trade-off between sex and material income.
- The anarchists pointed to his own comments to prove that he was a Malthusian.
- He was politically and economically arch-conservative, an ardent Malthusian and opponent of immigration.
- Partly because they were Malthusians, they were environmentalists and they wanted to reduce the human population.
- It is worthy of remark that he was a professed Malthusian.
- It is no wonder the Malthusians want to get rid of economics.
- Modern-day Malthusians have adopted the language of 'reproductive choice' and 'female empowerment'.
- Today we are seeing the rise of another set of gloomy economists, who might be called 'reverse Malthusians'.