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Reaganomics

/ˌreɪɡəˈnɑmɪks/noun

Reaganomics is a noun meaning “The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989)…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-A-G-A-N-O-M-I-C-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Reaganomics mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989), with a focus on reduced government spending, taxation, and regulations (supply-side economics) and granting potential benefits and encouragement to wealthy people and businesses in particular to drive the rest of the economy (trickle-down hypothesis).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Reaganomics?

  • US /ˌreɪɡəˈnɑmɪks/
  • UK /ˌreɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/

Reaganomics has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Reaganomics.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is Reaganomics?

Reaganomics appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Reaganomics in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense economic idea:

LanguageWords
Spanishreaganomía

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Reaganomics come from?

Blend of Reagan + economics, equivalent to Reagan + -nomics.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).