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What is "big government"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
big government
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eisenhower worried that big government was threatening the old American values.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I prefer local control rather than big government.
▪ Most substantially, Rockefeller is attacked as an apostle of big government.
▪ Our members are overwhelmed and frustrated by big government.
▪ The feistier sort of Republican is as hostile to big government by indirect means as to the direct variety.
▪ The national-greatness conservatives, as represented by Kristol and Brooks, make their peace with big government.
▪ The penalty imposed by big government for expansion in business is a growing burden of responsibility, paperwork and liability.
▪ This was a classic example of big government advocates misunderstanding a problem and designing a government solution guaranteed to make it worse.
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big government

n. (alternative form of big government English)

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Big government

Big government is a term generally used by conservatives and libertarians to describe a government or public sector that they consider to be excessively large and involved in certain areas of public policy or the private sector. The term may also be used specifically in relation to government policies that attempt to regulate matters considered to be private or personal, such as private sexual behavior or individual food choices. The term has also been used to define a dominant federal government that seeks to control the authority of local institutions - an example being the overriding of state authority in favor of federal legislation.

Usage examples of "big government".

It's one big government bureaucracy, with all the stupidities of a bureaucracy, and a man like Horton knows exactly how to exploit them.