English word senses marked with topical category "Margaret Thatcher"

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Total 15 word senses

• Iron Lady (Proper name) A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and unyielding.; Margaret Thatcher.
• Maggie (Proper name) Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.
• Maggie's den (Noun) A traditional call for the number ten.
• Thatcher effect (Proper name) The phenomenon whereby it is more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.
• Thatcher illusion (Proper name) The optical illusion resulting from the Thatcher effect.
• Thatcher's children (Noun) People who grew up or were born in the United Kingdom during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and who adopted the ideology of Thatcherism.
• Thatcheresque (Adjective) Reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), former British prime minister, or her policies.
• Thatcherian (Adjective) Of or relating to Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), British prime minister.
• Thatcherism (Proper name) The political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.
• Thatcherist (Noun) A proponent of Thatcherism.
• Thatcherite (Noun) An advocate of Thatcherism.
• Thatcherization (Noun) The act or process of Thatcherizing.
• Thatcherize (Verb) To modify (an image) by partial inversion, so that it triggers the Thatcher effect in observers.
• Thatchernomics (Noun) The economic policies followed by Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister.
• Westlandgate (Proper name) A 1985 controversy around government plans to bail out the helicopter company Westland.

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