austerity
IPA: ɔstˈɛrɪti
noun
- Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
- Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
- (economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
- (obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.
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Examples of "austerity" in Sentences
- Austerity is the essence of elegance.
- We should prepare for austerity and depression.
- He was canonized for his rectitude and austerity.
- The Conservatives arrived in power in 1979, on a programme of fiscal austerity.