nanny state

Noun

derogatory

(derogatory) A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.

Japanese Meaning

政府が過度に国民の私生活に介入し、過保護で権威的な国家体制を指す（揶揄的な表現） / 個人の自律を制限し、国家が不当にいるまいを指導する傾向が見られる国家を意味する（批判的な文脈で使用される）

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批評家たちは、新しい外出禁止措置が国を成人を子ども扱いする過保護で干渉的な国家に変えてしまう危険があると警告した。

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(derogatory) A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.

Scapegoating an impotent government (running around to clean up the messes made by its business friends) arises from bad faith, from a continuing hostility to the Nanny State that nevertheless goes alongside a refusal to accept the consequences of the sidelining of government in global capitalism […]

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nanny states

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