austerity
[noun]
Synonyms:
- sternness, formality, inflexibility, rigour, seriousness, severity, solemnity, stiffness, strictness
- asceticism, puritanism, self-denial, self-discipline, sobriety
- plainness, simplicity, starkness

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

aus‧ter‧i‧ty /ɔːˈsterəti, ɔːˈsterɪti, ɒ- $ ɒː-/ noun (plural austerities)

1. [countable usually plural, uncountable] bad economic conditions in which people do not have much money to spend:
a time of great austerity after the war
the austerities of post-communist Eastern Europe

2. [uncountable] when a government has a deliberate policy of trying to reduce the amount of money it spends
austerity programme/plan/package
a tough new austerity programme
IMF-backed austerity measures (=reductions in government spending)

3. [uncountable] the quality of being austere:
a life of austerity

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

austerity
noun
ADJ. post-war, wartime
AUSTERITY + NOUN measures, package, plan, policies, programme

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲