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nanny state

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nanny state
n. Informal
A government perceived as having excessive interest in or control over the welfare of its citizens, especially in the enforcement of extensive public health and safety regulations.
nanny state
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a government that makes decisions for people that they might otherwise make for themselves, esp those relating to private and personal behaviour
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nanny state
n (esp Brit pej) → Bevormundungsstaat m; (all-providing) → Versorgerstaat m
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Parents should be allowed to decide who looks after their offspring when and where they see fit without an aptly named Nanny State throwing its rattle out the pram.
Nanny State bureaucracy gets my goat by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
A BREWERY branded irresponsible for creating the UK's "strongest beer" has launched a low alcohol ale called Nanny State.
1.1% 'Nanny State' brew; BEER 1 by The Mirror (London, England)
Give us what we the public want and not this silly nanny state of political correctness we seem to have to endure.
VENT YOUR SPLEEN by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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