Thatcherize

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Etymology

From Thatcher +‎ -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

Verb

Thatcherize (third-person singular simple present Thatcherizes, present participle Thatcherizing, simple past and past participle Thatcherized)

  1. (transitive, UK politics) To subject to Thatcherism.
    • 1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:
      Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.
    • 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:
      This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone []
  2. (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.

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