Etymology

market citizen

Today it means: The privileged status of anyone exploiting the specific individual rights of the European single market, having effectively a kind of depoliticized citizenship as a form of purely economic communitarization. Full definition →

German Marktbürger
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  1. German · calque ofMarktbürger
  2. English todaymarket citizen

Calque of German Marktbürger.

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