Thatcherize

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verb

To subject to Thatcherism.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person Thatcherizes · participle present Thatcherizing · participle past Thatcherized · past Thatcherized · alternative Thatcherise

  1. UKtransitivegovernmentTo subject to Thatcherism.

    Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.

    1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister
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    This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]

    2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy
  2. transitiveTo modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.

Origin

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

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APA

Thatcherize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thatcherize

MLA

“Thatcherize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thatcherize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Thatcherize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thatcherize.

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