Brexitとは

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語源

Blend of Britain +‎ exit, formed by analogy with Grexit.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛɡzɪt/, /ˈbɹɛksɪt/
• ハイフネーション: Brex‧it

固有名詞

Brexit

1. (英国用法 politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

   Antonym: Bremain

   • 2012 May 15, Peter Wilding, “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, in EurActiv‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 June 2016:

     Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.

   • 2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 6:

     The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to Dublin […]

   • 2016 June 24, Kate McCann, “EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[2], archived from the original on 24 June 2016:

     David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

   • 2016 August 1, Alex Barker; Jim Brunsden, “Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks”, in The Financial Times, London:

     The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

   • 2017 June 19, Michel Barnier, “Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made”, in BBC News:

     We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

   • 2018 March 7, Daniel Boffey; Jennifer Rankin, “EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, London:

     [Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

   • 2018 June 5, “Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong”, in The Independent‎^[3], London:

     Meanwhile, The Sunday Times revealed that civil servants had warned of a “Doomsday Brexit” if no agreement is reached, creating shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

   • 2018 June 23, “Brexit: Theresa May 'not bluffing' in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says”, in The Independent‎^[4], London:

     "It's all incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our European partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic Brexit is that works for both sides, the EU and ourselves."

   • 2019, David Miliband, As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one in the Guardian.

     A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.

   • 02/12/2021 Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments, Euronews with AFP

     Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.

   • 17 Mar 2021, Thomas Sampson, trade after brexit the initial numbers, ukandeu.ac.uk

     An administrative consequence of Brexit is that the UK changed how it collects data on exports to the EU starting in January 2021.

   • November 2021, European Parliamentary Research Service, Christiaan van Lierop

     The EESC also considers that the €5.4 billion reserve will not be sufficient to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit and asks the co-legislators to increase the proposed ceiling.

下位語

• hard Brexit
• soft Brexit

等位語

• Bremain

派生語

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動詞

Brexit (三人称単数 現在形 Brexits, 現在分詞 Brexiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 Brexited)

1. (of Britain) To exit the European Union.
   • 2015, Stefano Francesco Fugazzi, Brexit?, →ISBN, page 27:

     Brexiting the EU, not leaving Europe

   • 2016, Owen Bennet, chapter 10, in The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaign’s Shock Victory, →ISBN:

     [Nigel] Farage recalls: What was clear from that polling was that in June 2015 the most trusted person in the country on whether to Brexit or not to Brexit was David Cameron.

   • 2016, Maureen Dowd, “Unconventional Conventions”, in The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics, →ISBN:

     Parisiens I had talked to were universally disgusted: with David Cameron, for holding the vote; with the British, for Brexiting; […]

2. (slang, by extension) To leave a romantic relationship. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

参考

• Appendix: Brexit glossary

Further reading

• United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 on Wikipedia.