Reagan administration
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- noun
- /ˈreɪɡən ˌæd.mɪ.nɪˈstreɪ.ʃən/
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administración Reagan
- In the end, several high-ranking members of the Reagan administration were either indicted, convicted, or had their careers forever tarnished by the affair and the cover-up.
- Reagan administration policy
- Reagan administration officials
- the Reagan administration pursued
That same time that was during the Reagan administration, they instated the the United States Sentencing Commission.
- That same time that was during the Reagan administration, they instated the the United States Sentencing Commission.
Examples
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The Reagan administration, supported by economists and financial lobbyists, started a 30-year period of financial deregulation.
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When Reagan became president, Thomas took a job as assistant secretary for Civil Rights in the Reagan administration.
Academic text (1991) -
The policies of the early Reagan administration had a particularly strong impact.
Academic text (1990) -
There was strong pressure on the Reagan administration to appear as if it had a policy in the area.
Academic text (1991) -
Initially, the Reagan administration was divided over the issue of whether the opposition should participate or not.
Academic text (1990) -
The Reagan administration was a conviction presidency.
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But why was the Reagan administration so willing to sell arms to a nation openly hostile to the United States?
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My task is to write about the Reagan administration's foreign economic policy.
Academic text (1990) -
Nonetheless, the Reagan administration claimed credit for the resurgence of democracy in Latin America and elsewhere during the 1980s.
Academic text (1999) -
The policies of the Reagan administration focused on tax cuts and increased military spending.
Synonyms
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The period when a president or leader is in office
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Reagan' (the president's name) with 'administration' (a leader's term in office); together they unambiguously refer to the executive government under Ronald Reagan. The 'X administration' construction is a regular, compositional pattern (cross-linguistically common), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Reagan administration names Ronald Reagan and the group of people who ran the United States government while he was 'president'. The word administration simply means the leader and their team, so the phrase refers to that government's actions and policies from 1981 to 1989.