Thatcherize

Alternative forms

• Thatcherise

Etymology

Thatcher +‎ -ize, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

Verb

Thatcherize (third-person singular simple present Thatcherizes, present participle Thatcherizing, simple past and past participle Thatcherized)

1. (transitive, politics) To subject to Thatcherism.
   • 1991, Bruce Anderson, John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister:

     Throughout the 1980s, she had been Thatcherizing the Cabinet.

   • 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy:

     This Thatcherized ethos showed how easily militant economism worked against the Left, once the postwar settlement's corporatist scaffolding was gone […]

2. (transitive) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.