dirigisme

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dirigisme

/ˈdɪɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/ UK
/ˈdiɚɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/ US

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Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“direct, steer”).

noun dirigismes · dirigism

countable, uncountable A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters. These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system.

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noun directive economy somewhat approaching centrally planned economy

中文	统制经济 tǒngzhì jīngjì
Français	dirigisme
Italiano	dirigismo
Ελληνικά	διευθυντισμός diefthyntismós

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@misc{dirigisme_2026,
  title = {dirigisme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dirigisme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}