English Explanatory Dictionary

Haussmannization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The creative destruction of something for the betterment of society.

Word forms

Haussmannization Haussmannizations

Etymology

From Haussmann + -ization, after Baron Haussmann.

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