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What (who) is swingeing - definition
swingeing
A swingeing action, such as an attack or cut, is very great or severe. (BRIT mainly JOURNALISM)
...the book mounted a swingeing attack on the materialist, growth-oriented economics of the day...
ADJ: ADJ n
Swingeing
·adj Huge; very large.
II. Swingeing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Swinge.
swingeing
['sw?n(d)???]
¦ adjective Brit. severe or extreme in size or effect.
Derivatives
swingeingly adverb
Examples of use of swingeing
1. However much they are hurt by these swingeing increases, they do no more than complain.
2. In Wales, swingeing taxes are levied on costly "I–band" holiday properties.
3. But financial mismanagement in some NHS trusts has forced swingeing cuts in some hospitals.
4. Many hospitals are being forced to make drastic and swingeing cuts.
5. These are really swingeing changes, and they are insensitive, too doctrinaire, instead of applying common sense," one senior executive says.