Austerity vs X - What's the difference?
austerity | x |
Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
(economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 23
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election
, work=the Guardian
(obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun austerity
is severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.austerity
English
Noun
citation, page= , passage=He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."}}