Meaning & use
dirigiste
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Relating to or favoring strong central government control of economic and social matters.
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Critics called the five-year plan a return to dirigiste economics.
The country's dirigiste industrial policy funneled investment into state-favored firms.
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Borrowed from French "dirigisme," the term became common in English economic writing to describe postwar French state-led planning.
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