austerity

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From Ancient Greek αὐστηρότης (austērótēs, “bitter, harsh”). Morphologically austere + -ity.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: строгост (strogost) — severity of manners or life
• Bulgarian: суровост (surovost) — severity of manners or life
• Catalan: austeritat — severity of manners or life
• Czech: přísnost — severity of manners or life
• Danish: strenghed — severity of manners or life
• Finnish: ankaruus — severity of manners or life
• Finnish: karuus — severity of manners or life
• French: austérité — severity of manners or life
• Galician: austeridade — severity of manners or life
• German: Einschränkung — severity of manners or life
• German: Härte — severity of manners or life
• German: Strenge — severity of manners or life
• German: Austerität — severity of manners or life
• German: Genügsamkeit — severity of manners or life
• Greek: αυστηρότητα (afstirótita) — severity of manners or life
• Hebrew: צֶנַע (tséna) — severity of manners or life
• Icelandic: strangleiki — severity of manners or life
• Icelandic: harka — severity of manners or life
• Irish: déine — severity of manners or life
• Italian: austerità — severity of manners or life
• Latin: austēritās — severity of manners or life
• Norwegian Bokmål: strenghet — severity of manners or life
• Polish: surowość — severity of manners or life
• Portuguese: austeridade — severity of manners or life
• Romanian: austeritate — severity of manners or life
• Russian: стро́гость (strógostʹ) — severity of manners or life
• Russian: суро́вость (suróvostʹ) — severity of manners or life
• Sanskrit: तपस् (tapas) — severity of manners or life
• Scottish Gaelic: cruadal — severity of manners or life
• Scottish Gaelic: teanntachd — severity of manners or life
• Serbo-Croatian: surovost — severity of manners or life
• Serbo-Croatian: oporost — severity of manners or life
• Spanish: austeridad — severity of manners or life
• Swedish: stränghet — severity of manners or life
• Welsh: llymder — severity of manners or life
• Albanian: austerity — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Bulgarian: стипчивост (stipčivost) — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Danish: stramhed — sourness and harshness to the taste
• French: austérité — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Latin: austēritās — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Norwegian Bokmål: stramhet — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Serbo-Croatian: oporost — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Serbo-Croatian: oštrina — sourness and harshness to the taste
• Catalan: austeritat — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Chinese Mandarin: 緊縮 /紧缩 (jǐnsuō) — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Czech: úspornost — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Czech: omezení — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Czech: utahování opasků — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Dutch: bezuiniging — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Esperanto: severŝparado — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Finnish: talouskuri — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• French: austérité — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Galician: austeridade — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• German: Austerität — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Greek: λιτότητα (litótita) — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Hungarian: megszorítás — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Italian: austerità — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Japanese: 緊縮財政 (kinshuku zaisei) — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Korean: 긴축 (ginchuk) — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Korean: 긴축재정 (ginchukjaejeong) — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Polish: polityka zaciskania pasa — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Russian: сдерживающая фискальная политика (sderživajuščaja fiskalʹnaja politika) — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Spanish: austeridad — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Swedish: åtstramning — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Swedish: åtstramningspolitik — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
• Swedish: svångremspolitik — policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes