big government

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big government¹

noun Big Government

  1. US, capitalized, sometimes, uncountable Governance that consists of large-scale programs, numerous departments and employees, and that entails substantial spending, especially liberal or left-wing governance which emphasizes social entitlements and regulation, and that is considered intrusive by some citizens, especially by conservatives or right-wingers Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. […] "Today it is not Big Business that we have

Big Government²

noun

  1. uncountable Alternative letter-case form of big government This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.

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@misc{big_government_2026,
  title = {big government},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/big%20government},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}