austerity
/ɒsˈterəti/ noun [U]Definition
› ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT a situation in which a government spends as little money as possible because of bad economic conditions: The idea was to stabilise the economy through strict austerity. The government introduced a number of austerity measures to help cut the deficit.
(Definition of austerity noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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