English word senses marked with topical category "Ronald Reagan"

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Total 23 word senses

• Contragate (Proper name) The Iran–Contra affair.
• Debategate (Proper name) A 1980s political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan, where Reagan's team somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for a debate with Reagan.
• Gipper (Proper name) A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.
• Gipperism (Noun) The political philosophy of U.S. president Ronald Reagan.
• Gipperite (Noun) A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.
• Gippermania (Noun) Enthusiasm for actor and American president Ronald Reagan.
• Irangate (Proper name) The Iran–Contra affair.
• Nancy Reagan gaze (Noun) A transfixed look upon a person taken as showing absolute devotion or affection.
• Reagan Democrat (Noun) A moderate and conservative Democrat, in the south and midwest, many of whom had previously supported conservative Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace for President of the USA, who supported the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.
• Reaganagram (Noun) An anagram of the name Ronald Wilson Reagan.
• Reaganaut (Noun) Synonym of Reaganite (“a supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)”)
• Reaganesque (Adjective) Reminiscent of Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989) and 33rd governor of California (1967–1975), or his policies.
• Reaganian (Adjective) Of or relating to Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989) and 33rd governor of California (1967–1975).
• Reaganism (Noun) The specific conservative ideology associated with the Reagan administration, 1981-1989.
• Reaganism (Noun) A statement or position commonly associated with Ronald Reagan.
• Reaganite (Adjective) Of or pertaining to Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989).
• Reaganite (Noun) A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.
• Reaganomics (Noun) The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989), with a focus on reduced government spending, taxation, and regulations (supply-side economics) and granting potential benefits and encouragement to wealthy people and businesses in particular to drive the rest of the economy (trickle-down hypothesis).
• SDI (Proper name) Initialism of Strategic Defense Initiative.
• Star Wars (Proper name) The United States Strategic Defense Initiative.
• Strategic Defense Initiative (Proper name) A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
• trust, but verify (Phrase) One should have general faith in the benevolent intentions of others, but ultimately one can only rely on things that have been verified.
• voodoo economics (Noun) Supply-side economics, particularly in reference to policies based on the Laffer curve.

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