Lexical extensions
Associated Press reports that "flexitarian" was voted "most useful new word of 2003" by the American Dialect Society. It describes those who are usually vegetarian, but sometimes eat meat.
I can only observe they must have been short of candidates. My personal choice would have been "dollarised", which is how an American beaureaucrat described the economic "regeneration" of Irak after the Coalition invasion. "Their economy will be completely dollarised" was how they used the term: in other words, Irak will be an 'empirical' extension of the American economy. [ Just like the proposed FTA with Australia, really. ] However, it turns out that the phrase has been used at least since 2001, even the Communist Party of India uses it to describe Cambodia's economy. There are also references in discussions of El Salvador and Argentina.
There is a extremely intriguing item from an Economics e-mail list, also using the term, which interconnects several fascinating political threads.
I note that "completely dollarised" is more or less exclusively used in context of "third-world" economies, often in relation to foreign political, intelligence, or military influence, as well as economic.
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