austerity
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
austerity
- Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
- Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
- (economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
- (obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.
- (severity of manners or life) comfort
- French: austérité
- German: Einschränkung, Härte, Strenge, Austerität, Genügsamkeit
- Italian: austerità
- Portuguese: austeridade
- Russian: стро́гость
- Spanish: austeridad
- French: austérité
- French: austérité
- Italian: austerità
- Russian: сдерживающая фискальная политика
- Spanish: austeridad
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