"Marmitegate" meaning in All languages combined

See Marmitegate on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Etymology: Marmite + -gate Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Marmite|gate}} Marmite + -gate Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Marmitegate
  1. (UK, informal) A 2016 controversy in which Marmite and related products had their prices increased by the manufacturer, blamed on a fall in the pound after Brexit, and leading to the temporary withdrawal of those products from Tesco supermarkets. Tags: UK, informal
    Sense id: en-Marmitegate-en-name-Dksb3JuS Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -gate

Download JSON data for Marmitegate meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Marmite",
        "3": "gate"
      },
      "expansion": "Marmite + -gate",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Marmite + -gate",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Marmitegate",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -gate",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 20, Martinne Geller, “Unilever's 'Marmitegate' shows strain on consumer industry”, in Reuters UK",
          "text": "The day “Marmitegate” dominated the front pages of British newspapers, the company reported a 3.2 percent rise in quarterly sales - with a 0.4 percent drop in the number of goods sold comfortably offset by a 3.6 percent increase in prices.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 November 17, “Tesco chief warns brands not to make UK shoppers pay for weak pound”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "In his first comments since last month’s “Marmitegate” stand-off, Dave Lewis said consumers should not be asked to pay “inflated prices” due to fluctuations in currencies, such as the post-referendum slump in the pound.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 January 26, Zlata Rodionova, “Brexit: Unilever boss says Britain should 'get used to' price rises after slump of pound sterling”, in The Independent",
          "text": "The chief executive of Unilever, the consumer goods giant at the centre of Marmitegate, said Britain should “get used to” price rises triggered by a slump in the pound after the Brexit vote.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 15, “Sainsbury's and ASDA plan joint assault on suppliers”, in Telegraph",
          "text": "Sainsbury’s and Asda are preparing a joint assault on the grocery industry’s biggest suppliers if their blockbuster merger is approved, in a move that will revive memories of the Marmitegate price row between Tesco and Unilever.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A 2016 controversy in which Marmite and related products had their prices increased by the manufacturer, blamed on a fall in the pound after Brexit, and leading to the temporary withdrawal of those products from Tesco supermarkets."
      ],
      "id": "en-Marmitegate-en-name-Dksb3JuS",
      "links": [
        [
          "controversy",
          "controversy"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "manufacturer",
          "manufacturer"
        ],
        [
          "pound",
          "pound"
        ],
        [
          "Brexit",
          "Brexit"
        ],
        [
          "supermarket",
          "supermarket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) A 2016 controversy in which Marmite and related products had their prices increased by the manufacturer, blamed on a fall in the pound after Brexit, and leading to the temporary withdrawal of those products from Tesco supermarkets."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Marmitegate"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Marmite",
        "3": "gate"
      },
      "expansion": "Marmite + -gate",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Marmite + -gate",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Marmitegate",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -gate",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 20, Martinne Geller, “Unilever's 'Marmitegate' shows strain on consumer industry”, in Reuters UK",
          "text": "The day “Marmitegate” dominated the front pages of British newspapers, the company reported a 3.2 percent rise in quarterly sales - with a 0.4 percent drop in the number of goods sold comfortably offset by a 3.6 percent increase in prices.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 November 17, “Tesco chief warns brands not to make UK shoppers pay for weak pound”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "In his first comments since last month’s “Marmitegate” stand-off, Dave Lewis said consumers should not be asked to pay “inflated prices” due to fluctuations in currencies, such as the post-referendum slump in the pound.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 January 26, Zlata Rodionova, “Brexit: Unilever boss says Britain should 'get used to' price rises after slump of pound sterling”, in The Independent",
          "text": "The chief executive of Unilever, the consumer goods giant at the centre of Marmitegate, said Britain should “get used to” price rises triggered by a slump in the pound after the Brexit vote.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 15, “Sainsbury's and ASDA plan joint assault on suppliers”, in Telegraph",
          "text": "Sainsbury’s and Asda are preparing a joint assault on the grocery industry’s biggest suppliers if their blockbuster merger is approved, in a move that will revive memories of the Marmitegate price row between Tesco and Unilever.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A 2016 controversy in which Marmite and related products had their prices increased by the manufacturer, blamed on a fall in the pound after Brexit, and leading to the temporary withdrawal of those products from Tesco supermarkets."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "controversy",
          "controversy"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "manufacturer",
          "manufacturer"
        ],
        [
          "pound",
          "pound"
        ],
        [
          "Brexit",
          "Brexit"
        ],
        [
          "supermarket",
          "supermarket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) A 2016 controversy in which Marmite and related products had their prices increased by the manufacturer, blamed on a fall in the pound after Brexit, and leading to the temporary withdrawal of those products from Tesco supermarkets."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Marmitegate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.