Meanings
nounsewer socialist (plural sewer socialists)
plural sewer socialists
- USgovernmentAn advocate of sewer socialism.
As the historian Joshua Freeman pointed out, New York had a sewer socialist of its own in the first half of the 20th century: Fiorello La Guardia, who was mayor from 1934 to 1946.
2025 October 11, Jonathan Derbyshire, “Bringing back the S-word”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19
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