paternalist
noun[C]
politicsusuallydisapprovinguk/pəˈtɜː.nə.lɪst/us/pəˈtɝː.nə.lɪst/someone inauthoritywhothinksorbehavesin a way thatresultsin them makingdecisionsfor otherpeopleratherthanlettingthem takeresponsibilityfortheirownlives:
实行家长式统治的人；家长主义者He was a paternalist whoruledwisely.他是一位明智型的家长式统治者。
They had asincere,albeitpaternalist,interestinAboriginalwelfare.他们对原住民的福利有着真诚的兴趣，尽管是家长式的。
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paternalism
- He was a paternalist,providinghisworkforcewithwelfareservicesandhousing.
- He was abenevolentpaternalist,protectingthemassesfrom themselves.
- Hisattitudetolabourwas that of an early nineteenth-centuryTorypaternalist.
Controlling and being in charge
- aggrandize
- assume
- assumption
- authoritative
- authoritatively
- commanding
- dictate
- guiding principle
- harness
- have (got)someoneby the short and curliesidiom
- havesomeoneby the ballsidiom
- havesomeoneeating out ofyourhandidiom
- helm
- override
- police
- policing
- possess
- power play
- predominate
- skipper