neoliberal policy
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- noun
- /ˌniːoʊˈlɪbərəl ˈpɑːləsi/
- Specialized
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política neoliberal
- In the contemporary era, neoliberal policies imposed on Haiti in the last three decades cemented the country's political and economic dependence.
- support neoliberal policies
Examples
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In recent decades, these organizations have often found themselves in opposition to neoliberal policies that Costa Rican governments have adopted.
Academic text (1999) -
In Jamaica, where stringent neoliberal policies produced the most dramatic adjustment in the economy, the decline in real wages was even steeper.
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The literature on economic restructuring and the neoliberal policies that have replaced the ISI model is also substantial.
Academic text (1999) -
The MAS administration does not represent a return to neoliberal policies, and some recent arguments to this effect are exaggerated.
Academic text (2012) -
In the 1990s, however, popular support was won by blaming neoliberal policies of the past for the deepened miseries of the present.
Academic text (1998) -
The report explores the development from privatization to corporatization, within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries.
Blog text (32) -
NAFTA simply consolidates an array of neoliberal policies that Mexico has implemented in adhering scrupulously to the "Washington consensus."
Academic text (1996) -
Haitian popular and grassroots organizations have fiercely resisted these plans and the neoliberal policies that underpin them.
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Unlike Menem and Salinas, Collor was not compelled to adopt neoliberal policies by right-wing parties or business associations.
Academic text (1998) -
In Jamaica, strict neoliberal policies led to significant economic adjustments, including a sharp decline in real wages.
Synonyms
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A political belief that values individual freedom, equal rights, limited government, free markets, and social progress
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Economic policies by U.S. president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s that cut taxes, reduce rules, and lower government spending
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A way of running an economy that lets businesses compete with little government control
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Ideas that favour free markets and less government control, for example selling state-owned companies
An economy where businesses operate with little government control
A belief that public services and industries should be run by private companies
Antonyms
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A government policy that helps local businesses by making foreign goods more expensive or limiting imports
How Market-Oriented
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'neoliberal' names an ideology of free markets and reduced state intervention, and 'policy' means a plan or course of action, so the phrase simply denotes a policy based on neoliberal principles. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and the logic is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Neoliberal policy comes from the words neo (meaning 'new') and liberal (meaning 'free-market'), and was used in the late 20th century to describe a 'new' push for older free-market ideas. Picture governments rolling back rules and selling public services to private companies — that's why the term now means policies that favour free markets, privatization, and less government control.