dirigiste

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere, present active infinitive of dīrigō (“I direct, I steer”)

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /dɪɹəˈʒist/, /dɪɹɪˈʒist/

Adjective

dirigiste (comparative more dirigiste, superlative most dirigiste)

  1. Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
    • 1982, Norman Barry, The Tradition of Spontaneous Order, Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought, 5:2;7-58, p. 10,:
      The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony.

Translations

Noun

dirigiste (plural dirigistes)

  1. An advocate of dirigisme.

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French

Adjective

dirigiste (plural dirigistes)

  1. dirigiste (of or relating to the doctrine of dirigisme)

Noun

dirigiste m, f (plural dirigistes)

  1. dirigiste (advocate of dirigisme)

Italian

Noun

dirigiste f

  1. plural of dirigista

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Portuguese

Verb

dirigiste

  1. second-person singular preterite of dirigir

Spanish

Verb

dirigiste

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) preterite indicative form of dirigir.
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