dirigisme

• dirigism

Borrowed from French dirigisme, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“direct, steer”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdiɚɹɪʒɪz(ə)m/

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dirigisme (countable and uncountable, plural dirigismes)

1. A policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters. [from 20th c.]
   • 1991, James M. Buchanan, The Minimal Politics of Market Order, pp. 222, Cato Journal 11:2:

     These agents, for the same distributional and paternalistic reasons that motivated many of the socialist experiments in economic dirigisme, may seek to use political authority to modify, at least in part, the results of the market system.

   • 2011, Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, page 113:

     In the name of development, the reformed states adopted the dirigisme of colonial administration – forced labour re-emerged in them as well.

• dirigiste

• “dirigisme”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• semi-rigid, semirigid

From diriger +‎ -isme.

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dirigisme m (plural dirigismes)

1. dirigisme (politico-economic doctrine)

• “dirigisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Dutch dirigisme, from French dirigisme.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /diriˈɡismə/ [di.riˈɡis.mə]
• Rhymes: -ismə
• Syllabification: di‧ri‧gis‧me

dirigisme (plural dirigisme-dirigisme)

1. (politics) dirigisme: a policy of strong state control over the economy and related social matters

• “dirigisme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.