Definitions
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French dirigiste, from diriger ("to run, to direct"), from Latin dirigere, present active infinitive of dīrigō ("direct, steer") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“After much yardage of "feel-good" waffle, EurActive gets down to brass tacks on regulatory issues, telling us that Witney, "…does not believe a change of the overall situation for European defence procurement can be achieved with 'dirigiste' measures from Brussels that members states are not comfortable with.”
“He does not actually argue that "a change of overall situation for European defence procurement" cannot be achieved "with 'dirigiste' measures from Brussels", merely that it cannot be achieved "with measures… that members states are not comfortable with.”
“This state intervention has entailed detailed "dirigiste" planning and implementation of comprehensive development programmes, fully accepting the concept of a developmental state.”
“* This state intervention has entailed detailed "dirigiste" planning and implementation of comprehensive development programmes, fully accepting the concept of a developmental state.”
“Protectionist trade policy and dirigiste industrial policy meet at several junctions.”
“Contrast that to a Napoleonic, top-down, dirigiste environment where a mere individual, literally or metaphorically, needs to be somehow 'licensed': a 'permis a creer', as it were.”
The Huffington Post: Nick Jefferson: Smile. They Can't Commoditize Creativity.
“In India, which still hasn't fully recovered from its dirigiste past, a new set of rules begets another one, and bureaucracy easily expands.”
The Wall Street Journal: India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
“US policies continue to allow foreign dirigiste economies to steal a march on solar and carbon-reducing technologies.”
“It is the "ever-closer union" that sceptics claim will yield a brittle political economy, Germanic and dirigiste at the centre, Latin and rebellious at the fringe.”
The Guardian: The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again
“In 2007, France elected a president in Nicolas Sarkozy who promised "rupture" with dirigiste stagnation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dirigiste’.
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Words you can't find on the Thesaurus
My favorite, hard-to-find words - these aren't crazy words you'd never find in the dictionary, but the best moderate words I can find.
Napery, Chafe, Machination, Sacrilege, Sacrament, Marmoreal, Cynosure, Beget, Consumerism, Juxtapose, Mantra, Hedonistic and 155 more...
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot, psaltery and 236 more...
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ElRojo
R. Peter Jackson's list
cantillation, jackstaff, pullulate, whoremonger, colloquy, batman, anathema, idiosyncratic, facilitation, sympathy, empathy, satrap and 137 more...
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electriccounterpoint's list
Words I've tried to remember in the past and failed, or words I might want in the future
preprandial, hobson's choice, defenestrate, sähkö, backpfeifengesicht, exegesis, midrash, hrvatska, ljubljana, dirigisme, dirigiste, fatiloquent and 35 more...
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Impressive
Impressive words to use in everyday speech
anathema, ensorcel, troglodyte, vicissitude, heterodoxy, epergne, eleemosynary, obstreperous, aliunde, concomitant, dirigiste, sang-froid and 69 more...
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han's list
Interesting words, mostly from The Economist and other newspapers.
sauerkraut, latke, hoi polloi, supplication, belie, sinecure, duplicity, eulogize, gentile, denouement, peaceable, nous and 29 more...
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