Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A negative growth (i.e. a reduction) of an economy or a population.

    Wachstumsrücknahme, Postwachstum

    антиро́стantiróst

  2. (countable, uncountable)A political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and anticonsumerist and anticapitalist ideas.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Degrowth is not primitivism.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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negative growth:

Origin

From de- + growth, a calque of French décroissance.

From de- + growth, a calque of French décroissance.

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Forms

plural: degrowths
Singulardegrowth
Pluraldegrowths

regular

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddegrowther

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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