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名詞

salt water (countable and uncountable, plural salt waters)

1. Any water containing dissolved salt; brine.

上位語

• water

下位語

• seawater

形容詞

salt-water (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of saltwater

発音

名詞

saltwater (countable and uncountable, plural saltwaters)

1. Alternative form of salt water.
   • 2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:

     Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.

上位語

• water

下位語

• seawater

派生語

• saltwater bush (Rachicallis americana)
• saltwater crocodile
• saltmarsh sparrow
• saltwater taffy

形容詞

saltwater (not comparable)

1. New Keynesian or Keynesian, in reference to macroeconomics and economics departments on the East Coast and West Coast of the United States of America.

   Alternative form: salt-water

   • 2004, Arnold Kling, Learning Economics, 1st edition, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 29:

     Sweetwater and Saltwater economists tend to differ on policy issues.

   • 2007, David Colander, The Making of an Economist, Redux, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 228:

     These findings suggest that the divide between fresh and saltwater departments has all but disappeared. The ideological battle is over.

   • 2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86.

     Despite their often heated debates, saltwater and freshwater economists agreed on one fundamental point: that macroeconomic analysis must be based on the foundations of neoclassical microeconomics.

   • 2015, Meghnad Desai, Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One, 1st edition, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 191:

     In the US, economists were said to be from sweetwater departments – from Chicago and Minnesota, where they were new classical – and from saltwater departments – MIT, Harvard and Yale, where they continued to be Keynesians who did not concede the ground totally to the new classical economists.

   • 2016, Philippa Malmgren, Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     A tax rate of say, 91 per cent – as suggested by the very saltwater Nobel Prizewinner, economist Paul Krugman – would force Americans to hand over a much larger proportion of their income than most are comfortable with.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “both senses”): freshwater, sweetwater

参照

• “saltwater”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “saltwater”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.