austerity

US: /ˌɔˈstɛɹɪti/
UK: /ɔːstˈɛɹɪti/


English Vietnamese dictionary


austerity /ɔ:s'teriti/ (austereness) /ɔ:s'tiənis/
  • danh từ
    • sự nghiêm khắc, sự khắt khe, sự chặt chẽ
    • sự mộc mạc, sự chân phương
    • sự khắc khổ, sự khổ hạnh; sự giản dị khắc khổ
    • vị chát

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun (plural austerities)
1 [U] a situation when people do not have much money to spend because there are bad economic conditions: War was followed by many years of austerity. + austerity measures and economic reforms
2 [U] the quality of being austere: the austerity of the monks' life
3 [C, usually pl.] something that is part of an austere way of life: the austerities of wartime Europe

Collocation dictionary


ADJ.

post-war, wartime

AUSTERITY + NOUN

measures, package, plan, policies, programme


Concise English dictionary


austeritiesɒ'sterətɪ
noun
+the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)