Floccinaucinihilipilification – word used by MPC member 27/08/2019 – Posted in: Daily News
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ as “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless”.
- Recently, the word is used by Monetary Policy Committee member Chetan Ghate.
- He used the word to characterise the efforts of several economists who have raised doubts about the validity of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) estimates.
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