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- Europe; European:
欧洲的；欧洲人的：
Eurocommunism.
欧洲共产主义
Euro-(sometimes lower case) combining form of Europe or European.
Also, (before a vowel), Eur-.
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- European; European and ...表示“欧洲的”; “欧洲与…的”：
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Euro-American.
- ■ relating to Europe or the European Union表示“与欧洲（或欧盟）有关的”：
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Eurocommunism
a Euro-MP.
1952 B. Davidson Rep. S.Afr. i. iv. 53The *Euro-African, or Coloured, rate of increase.
1958 Optima Mar. 25/2 A Euro-African market, which would, as its name implies, favour trade and exchanges between the two continents.
1963 Guardian 7 Jan. 5/7 The school's Provisional Committee of nine Africans and three Euro-Africans.
1928 Critical Crown I. 28 Economists lose even the shade of the ‘economic man’ as they contemplate cultures other than the *Euro-American.
1949 M. Mead Male & Female ii. 27Hygienic fears with which most Euro-Americans surround themselves in native villages.
1961 New Left Rev. July–Aug. 10/2A vast..Euro-American entity.
1935 Discovery Oct. 293/1 The *Euro-Asiatic origin of Man.
1963 Economist 30 Nov. 902/2 If General de Gaulle had any illusions about converting his guest to his *Eurocentric ideas, Herr Erhard dispelled them.
1984 Times 17 Feb. 7/8 They have become less eurocentric in their approach and pay more attention to Third World issues.
1975 Austral. Outlook XXIX. 287Until the late 1960s New Zealand's foreign policies seemed characterised by *Eurocentricity.
1985 Listener 24 Jan. 11/3 Those days of Eurocentricity are now gone. Chinese civilisation has at least been touched on in recent years and Africa got its own TV series more recently.
1974 J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship 12Throughout its existence..the Comintern was confronted with fascism in Europe. This, together with its characteristic *Eurocentrism, means that its policy towards fascism is a good indication of the wider theory and practice it adopted.
1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Aug. 948/1There is the danger of Eurocentrism... To determine the meaning of myth for the modern world is not..to determine the meaning of myth for Western man.
1985 Times 10 May 5/8 The tension persists between the Atlanticists, who see the unity of Western Europe as part of a wider partnership with the United States, and *Eurocentrists, who believe that the unity of Western Europe requires it to be distinct from the United States.
1969 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 3/3The service will be known as ‘*Eurocheque’ and banks taking part will show the ‘Eurocheque’ blue and red sign.
1976 Ibid. 13 Nov. 21/1Under the Eurocheque system the Briton travelling abroad can get up to the equivalent of {pstlg}30 in cash from a Continental bank.
1985 Financial Times 1 June (Weekend Suppl. ) p. v/1Eurocheques are now available from Midland, Lloyds and Natwest banks... As well as paying..for the Eurocheque guarantee card, you will be charged..each time you write a cheque.
1960 Aeroplane XCIX. 757/2 Mr. Rankin asked for more information about the main provisions of *Eurocontrol.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVIII. 643/2In Europe, the many national boundaries make the need greatest. This situation has led to the formation of Eurocontrol, a supranational authority. [ for integration]
1985 Interavia Air Let. 29 Apr. 2Eurocontrol..has clarified the situation concerning..forthcoming air traffic control (ATC) arrangements.
1961 Economist 29 July 449/1 These new ‘*Eurocrats’ are worth watching.
1962 Britannica Bk. of Year 1961 546/1Eurocrats, administrative staff of the various European organizations such as the European Economic Community.
1968 New Scientist 14 Nov. 386/3 Eurocrats and au pair girls, bankers from Basle..all are examined.
1960 Times 24 Oct. (Financ. Rev. ) p. viii/3London became..the most active dealer in the so-called ‘*Euro-dollar’.
1965 Economist 19 June p. xiii/1 Euro-dollars are deposits of United States dollars with banks outside the United States. The overseas banks need not be in Europe.
1969 Guardian 12 Feb. 3/4 ( Advt. ),When you want Euro-dollars, or any other Euro-currency, a Chaseman can get them for you in minutes rather than hours.
1971 Listener 7 Jan. 15/3 The *Euro-Group of Ministers.
1972 Times 24 May 6/4 The Eurogroup started at dinner party level in 1968 but became more formalized in 1970.
1984 Listener 24 May 6/3 NATO, with its plethora of groups: its Eurogroup, its Nuclear Planning Group, its Special Consultative Group, its Defence Planning Committee, and so on.
1979 Summary of World Broadcasts (B.B.C.) 21 Apr. SU/6097/A1/3 New medium-range missiles..are the ‘*Euromissiles’, which the NATO leaders want to impose on the West European countries.
1983 U.S. News & WorldRep. 13 June 27The President's performance at the Williamsburg summit convinced skeptics that Reagan is on track in his strategy to limit Euromissiles on both sides.
1977 Guardian Weekly 27 Feb. 15/3 This class of regional, or ‘*Eurostrategic’ arms is composed of a disparate group of weapons—NATO and Warsaw Pact nuclear-capable strike aircraft, Soviet medium-range bombers, Soviet IRBM and the British and French submarine-launched missiles.
1979 Economist 6 Oct. 49/3 The question..of stationing in Europe of Euro-strategic weapons so that there is a Euro-strategic balance, not just one covered by an inter-continental balance.
1982 Christian Science Monitor 15 Jan. b–6/2 ‘The dawn of the eighties,’ Mr. Churchill writes, ‘ushered in an era in which every one of NATO's offsetting advantages in the field of nuclear weapons—at strategic, Euro strategic and battlefield level—has been lost.’
1951 Evening Standard 5 Nov., What is *Eurovision? A system of collaboration among the West European countries including Britain by which television programmes will become interchangeable.
1954 N.Y. Times 6 June 85/3Europe's leading television engineers will twirl dials with crossed fingers tomorrow when they tune in the first eight-nation ‘Eurovision’ hook-up through Lille.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 796/1 Millions more saw the coronation..on television, through the Eurovision link.
1965 BBC Handbk. 39Twenty-three television organizations in eighteen Western European countries..make up ‘Eurovision’.
1968 Guardian 22 Aug. 6/5 Czech television screened the invasion... Austrian television was able to pick up the pictures and send them to Britain via Eurovision.
1970 Times 18 Aug. 21/6 So much for the *Euro-executive's remuneration; but what of the way he has to work in order to gain it?
1985 Financial Times 6 Mar. i. 4/7 Such VAT-exempt goods as wedding presents, company cars and the household belongings of mobile Euroexecutives.
1967 Guardian 19 May 10/6 Those *Euro-fanatics in the Cabinet who persist in seeking to join the Common Market on humiliating terms.
1981 Economist 3 Jan. 17/1 M is permanently at loggerheads with Peter's eurofanatics.
1965 Economist 13 Mar. 1164/2 (caption) *Eurofarmer: catching up with the townies?
1983 Financial Times 6 Oct. iii. 40/5 It seems a combination of poor harvest and what Euro-farmers would consider a severe price cut is the immediate solution in the U.S.
1957 N.Y. Times 14 July iv. 4/6 (heading)Vote on *Euromarket and Euratom.
1963 N. Freeling Gun before Butter ii. 82The great difference in the fixed retail price..is one of the complex anomalies that the Euromarket has not yet abolished.
1957 Birmingham (Alabama) News 14 Feb. 46/1 The plan, nicknamed ‘*Euromart’, has yet to be ratified by these six nations.
1976 Times 17 Feb. 16/2 Implementation of the proposed *Euronet computer network has got under way.
1985 Financial Times 25 Mar. ii. 15/8 The best known of this type is the Diane network operated by Euronet. [ data base]
1982 M. Fallon Rise of Euroquango iv. 17*Euroquangos have been the vehicle by which national trade unions..have gained power in Community decision-making.
1985 English Today Apr. 38/2 Euro-MPs are not against the Euro-quango as such.
1979 Sunday Tel. 8 July 8/1Mrs. Thatcher is particularly severe on the rubbish-jargon of *Eurospeak.
1984 N.Y. Times 9 Dec. iv. 5/1IMP's—in Eurospeak, the community jargon, the acronym for agricultural subsidies known as Integrated Mediterranean Programs.
1979 Economist 12 May 63/1 EEC leaders told the community's finance ministers to study the problem and come up with ideas before the next *Euro summit, in Strasbourg next month.
1985 Financial Times 28 Oct. 21/2 It is still too early to predict how far they will get by the next Euro-summit in five weeks' time.
1979 Economist 16 June 30/3 Germany's *Euro-campaign never really managed to stop looking like a giant party.
1984 Financial Times 14 June i. 11/4 His more serious message about jobs and disarmament..showed why he has been such a star of the Euro-campaign.
1984 Southern Rag No. 22. 20/2He was recently Euro-campaigning in his Leeds constituency when he came across two people busking.
1976 Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 8/4 (heading) {pstlg}1000 deposit plan for *Euro candidates.
1984 Daily Tel. 11 June 14/1In justice to the Euro-candidates, some of them have tried to address themselves to these detailed, boring matters.
1976 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 26 Nov. 6/6The boundaries of the *Euro-constituencies have yet to be drawn up.
1984 Which? June 265/2 Each of our Euro-constituencies is roughly the size of eight Westminster constituencies.
1979 Economist 30 June 20/2 Mr Edward Heath, who canvassed in 41 constituencies during the *Euro-election.
1985 Financial Times 14 May i. 2/3 The distribution of Spain's seats will later be adjusted as soon as the country stages direct Euro-elections.
1975 Economist 20 Dec. 37/2 All Danish *Euro-MPs will also be members of the Danish parliament.
1977 Belfast Tel. 27 Jan. 10/1For the future three Euro-MPs from the province it will not only be a step into the ‘big time’ of pay scales but also a new setting with linguists, headphones and even TV cameras.
1982 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 2/8Euro-MPs voted by 82 votes to 45 in favour of a resolution recommending the progressive reduction in the manufacture and sale of war toys.
1962 Punch 21 Nov. 741/2 Today's debate in *Europarliament at Bournemouth.
1977 Time 27 June 13/1 Europe's leaders agreed to proceed with the directly elected Europarliament as stipulated in the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
1984 Daily Tel. 19 June 14/1The second Euro-parliament to emerge from direct suffrage seems doomed to lack more credibility even than its predecessor.
1976 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 26 Nov. 6/6 (heading){pstlg}1,000 needed in *Euro-poll.
1984 Daily Tel. 19 June 14/2The increase in Labour's vote in the Euro-poll would still leave the Conservatives with a comfortable majority there.
1977 Times 16 Apr. 12/8 Proportional representation in the election to the so-called *Euroseats.
1984 Daily Tel. 19 June 14/2A second and less obvious gain for Labour was its ability to take second place from the Alliance in 18 of the 32 Euro-seats.
1962 Economist 19 May 708/2 It will be open to European inventors to apply for the Euro-patent or national patents for both will co-exist.
1965 Daily Tel. 1 June 14/1Studies are being made aimed at agreeing on common electrical standards throughout Europe... A common electric plug has been devised... It is called the ‘Europlug’.
1967 Economist 5 Aug. 523/3 Germany's second biggest ..will spend about {pstlg}600,000 to {pstlg}700,000 on changing over from the conventional flip top bottle to the ‘euro bottle’, a Brussels invention. [ brewery]
1977 Sunday Times 23 Jan. 13/6 The new Euro-pass is introduced by means of a simple agreement, made in Brussels... Not even the design of the new passport is likely to come under the scrutiny of Parliament.
1985 Times 28 Jan. 4 Marking animals with a Eurocode so that their owners can identify them.
1962 Economist 17 Mar. 1045/1 The high rates being paid for sterling deposits in Paris (‘Eurosterling’).
1963 Ibid. 25 May 797/1The frictions and imperfections..that lie behind the Euro-currencies.
1964 Statist 7 Feb. 423/1 The market in euro-Swiss francs, or Euro-Deutschmarks is relatively small.
1970 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 19/7The newest exciting arrival on the international currency scene looks like being the ‘Euroyen’.
1970 Times 24 June 29/7 The defence possibilities in line with the market are much more favourable owing to the attraction of the Euromoney market.
1972 Ibid. 19 Dec. 15/5 (Advt. ),We have a vacancy for a Senior Euro-currency Deposit Dealer.
1974 M. Mayer Bankers xvii. 475Since the late 1960s, some of the loans that would once have been made in Eurodollars have been made instead in Euromarks, Euroyen, Eurosterling, and Euro (Swiss) francs.
1979 Economist 31 Mar. (Survey) 28/3 The Eurocurrency market has become a borrowers' one.
1980 Harper's Mag. Feb. 48/1Even when..the various Euroyen, Eurofrancs, Euromarks, and so forth are subtracted, there exists no reasonable external source for these funds.
1985 Times 1 June 25 In Japan investment will be Samurai (Government) bonds, Euroyen bonds and convertibles.
1966 Economist 2 Apr. 74/1 Prices of *Euro-bond issues have at last turned upward.
1969 Times 5 May ( Suppl. ) p. xiii/3The investor in Eurobonds has shown a good appetite for the issue that is geared to Wall Street for its growth.
1979 D. Meiring Foreign Body xiv. 144was carrying on abrasively about the Ministry of Finance's failure to send him Eurobond interest rates in time. [ He]
1985 Eurobond . [ see Euro-credit above]
1975 Economist 23 Aug. 64/3 According to the World Bank, *Eurocredits in the April–June quarter totalled nearly $5 billion.
1985 Amer. Banker 4 Dec. 37/4London..is regarded as the center of Eurobond and Eurocredit offerings.
1976 Daily Beacon ( Univ. of Tennessee) 23 July 6/3The rub is that nobody knows how much *Eurodebt is floating around the world.
1982 Financial Times 4 May (World Banking Survey) p. i/5 In a couple of years up to 30 per cent of all outstanding Eurodebt will have to be rescheduled.
1971 Amer. Banker 6 Jan. 16/3Wanted funds at the short end of the market caused *Eurodeposit rates to close firm.
1974 M. Mayer Bankers ix. 219Eurodeposits were forty-four negative.
1966 Economist 3 Sept. 947/3 In 1965, total ‘*Euro-issues’—that is, loans denominated in currencies other than that of the market in which they were floated—reached well over $1 billion.
1982 Financial Times 1 Mar. 15/7 Short—usually 5-year—maturities are the norm for Euro-issues.
1972 New Yorker 22 Apr. 57/1 ( Advt. ),We make loans to customers who've never had *Euro-loans before. And we invent unusual forms for Euro-loans.
1985 Financial Times 4 Dec. i. 6 Reserves stood..well above the average level..because of the boost received in October by the Government's $2.5 bn floating rate Euroloan.
1977 Business Week 14 Nov. 196/2 It is this real..penalty..that is leading Reynolds to get out of its mark debt by refinancing it with U.S. dollar *Euro-notes.
1979 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Aug. 19/1The first Euronote to be denominated in Canadian dollars in three months was badly received. [ issue]
1985 Amer. Banker 20 Dec. 2/3Euronote issuance activity has expanded because borrowers have been eager to replace syndicated loans with the more flexible, cheaper Euronote issuance facilities.
1972 Times 24 May (Banking in Europe Suppl. ) p. xii/2It is not only American companies which obtain finance from *Eurobanks.
1982 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 13/1 In *Eurobanking, there is no deposit insurance.
1969 Times 5 May ( Suppl. ) p. xiii/4Morgan Guaranty of Brussels..introduced its *Euroclear which is an attempt to bring some organization into the market.
1970 Times 1 June 22 Euroclear is based in Brussels and already has some 164 members.
1985 Financial Times 6 Dec. 31/4 Euroclear, the Brussels-based Eurobond clearing house, is to begin providing a same-day issuance and settlement service.
1968 Amer. Banker 2 July 1/1The American Banker Today begins a new weekly column..entitled *Eurofinance.
1985 Ibid. 20 Dec. 2/3New financing techniques came fast and furiously to the Eurofinance markets in 1985.
1976 Economist 14 Feb. (Survey) 10/3 True, after soaring to a record of more than $29 billion in 1974, syndicated medium-term *Eurolending totalled little over $20 billion last year. But that drop was in itself a sign of the return to normality.
1985 Financial Times 2 Dec. 22/4 The big expansion of Eurolending business is a thing of the past.
1963 Statist 5 Apr. 37/2 This short description of the ‘*Euro’ markets.
1971 Amer. Banker 14 Sept. 18/1The latest push in the Euromarket is developing through commercial paper.
1985 Financial Times 19 Dec. ii. 31/1 Yields in the Euromarkets have looked too high against New York yields to attract borrowers.
1975 Economist 14 June 22 (caption) *Europarliamentarians.
1976 Ibid. 14 Feb. 70/1The 33.7m electors in England should be choosing 56 of Britain's 67 Europarliamentarians.
1985 Newsweek 11 Mar. 19/1 In Strasbourg, where Reagan is to address the European Parliament, Deaver skipped an appointment with Europarliamentarians so that he could stroll about town.
1981 Time 1 June 34/2 He changed his mind after discovering that..the *Europarliamentary President was a woman, Simone Veil.
1984 Listener 19 Jan. 4/2 They find Europarliamentary life anything but a boondoggle.
1979 Business Week 21 May 137/1 *Euroconvertibles..have been around for years but form only a small part of the multibillion-dollar Eurobond market.
1984 Ibid. 23 July 108/1A large portion of Texaco Inc.'s gigantic $1.5 billion Euroconvertible issues..was..swallowed up by the European banks for their clients.
1987 Evening Standard 25 Mar. 44/5 The Euro-convertible market yields a very different story.
1988 Financial Times 25 July (Corporate Finance Suppl. ) p. vii/4It is quite possible that ‘guaranteed put’ options—a common provision in Euro-convertibles..—will make their entry into the domestic market.
1975 B. S. Quinn New Euromarkets v. 71‘*Euroequity’ is a word which as yet has no generally accepted meaning. It is used to cover various types of security, including various types of depositary receipts, convertible eurobonds, eurobonds with warrants, offshore convertible preferreds, and various other types of share issue for which there is no accepted name.
1978 Economist 22 Apr. 126/3 In 1977, it claims to have managed or co-managed $1.3 billion of Eurobond and Euroequity issues.
1986 Financial Times 3 July ( Suppl. ) p. xiv/8The Euromarkets have begun to distribute shares through the Eurobond syndication method—these are dubbed Euroequities.
1990 Institutional Investor ( Internat. ed. ) July 145/1Arab Banking Corp. boosted its capital..through an international share flotation—a portion of which was sold in Bahrain as a Euro-equity offering.
1986 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. vii. 11/2Acts of terrorism or Soviet duplicity occasion from our Atlantic partners outbursts of oily *Eurobabble.
1987 Economist 18 July 20/1 In the European Parliament, Eurobabble can turn to EuroBabel.
1990 Times 27 Apr. 13/2 No matter that the Kohl-Mitterand accords might amount to no more than Eurobabble.
1986 Times 30 June 9/1 Mrs Thatcher is seen in most of the EEC as a *Euro-sceptic at best.
1990 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 23/2It would be very regrettable if anyone sought to divert the party down a Euro-sceptic path.
1991 Washington Times 8 Dec. a17/2 Denmark: Nation of Euro-sceptics that nevertheless has come round to integration.
1992 Independent 31 Oct. 29/6 I'm not a Eurosceptic. I'm a Europragmatist... I would support the treaty if we could get a proper definition of subsidiarity, but I won't support a motion that says, ‘We are going to ratify Maastricht. Have a nice day!’
1990 Guardian 17 July 6/1 ‘It's the old money versus the garageistes,’ a *Euro-Sceptical Tory MP said yesterday.
1991 Economist 22 June 34/3 Mr Major entrusted much of the sensitive work on his ‘hard ecu’ alternative to monetary union to the Euro-sceptical Mr Maude.
1992 Economist 26 Dec. 49/2 The great German beer row has, it is generally thought, done more for *Euro-scepticism in Germany than any incident since the creation of the Community.
1996 Independent 16 Jan. 14/6 Two sentences in Baroness Thatcher's Keith Joseph Memorial lecture reveal the self-delusion at the heart of Euroscepticism.
1971 Times 31 Dec. 8 Yet to Mr. Kissinger's British—and conspicuously *Europhile—visitor none of this made recognizable sense at all.
1992 Economist 4 Jan. 30/1 Never the greatest Europhile himself, he must sometimes reflect that the pressure on him from sterling's membership of the European exchange-rate mechanism can be traced back to Mr Major.
1993 Face Sept. 159 Europhiles can also get excited about the prospect of a..trip to Paris on Sept 16.
2001 R. Holt Second amongst Equals (2002) iv. 136A belief in fixed exchange rates that, to the Prime Minister's fury, also placed him firmly in the Europhile portion of the Cabinet.
1975 Chinweizu West & Rest of Us xv. 334Nigerians acting as department heads..have been made to understand by this *Europhiliac vice-chancellor that they would hold their positions only until some expatriates could be found to fill them.
1978 Times 29 Nov. 27/1 Enter, stage left, a new Europhiliac, one Norman Stagg, 58, deputy general secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers.
1996 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 13/1The Chancellor's Europhiliac tendencies make him an object of suspicion to Tory hard-liners.
2004 D. Drummond Toni Morrison's Developing Class Consciousness v. 75As a Europhiliac, she feels threatened by African women who are unashamed of their identity and culture.
1978 Internat. Jrnl. Middle EastStud. 9 474He believed that he could manage Urabi and his fellow colonels, who were moderates and progressives, not at all the *Europhobes that they had been painted.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 16 June 13The recent tussle between Anglophobe Giscard d'Estaing and Europhobe Britain.
1992 Economist 31 Oct. 6/1 It is not Europhobe to question these assumptions.
2001 N.Y. Times (Nationaled. ) 30 Aug. a3/2The political establishment has tied the euro to fealty to Europe... Critics get shunted off into the corner as Europhobes, and we don't want to be Europhobes.
1978 Economist 5 Aug. 38/1 Much of the damage is done by *Europhobic British ministers such as Mr Benn and Mr Silkin.
1997 New Yorker 15 Dec. 148 Hogarth..remains England's most militantly nationalistic and Europhobic artist.
2005 E. Jones & A. Verdun Polit. Econ. European Integration x. 172Slovakia..is the only Central or Eastern European country ever to have had Europhobic parties as part of a government coalition.
1976 Melody Maker 22 May 9/1 Abba are the current kings of *Euro-pop.
1979 Washington Post 14 Jan. p10/5 Europop remains strong in the U.K. , even though once-massive Abba had only one hit single all year.
1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash ii. 36DJ Alfredo's long sets at Amnesia..encompassed..early house, Europop, plus oddities from the likes of Peter Gabriel and Thrashing Doves.
1985 Guardian 25 July 30/6 Mr Isaacs sternly warns against the danger of a ‘*Euro pudding’. Each series will have a clear national identity and will be the responsibility of a single station.
2003 Vanity Fair May 217/2 Half-cocked, mortifying movies of the sort Grant calls Europuddings—‘where you would have a French script, a Spanish director, and English actors’.
1980 M. Thomas Green Monday 39The Daily News's ace gossipist had breathlessly carried an account of a ball the Biglers had thrown..for the Duke and Duchess of Keingeld and 1000 of their closest friends... Harrison thought Wendell Bigler himself looked very relieved, even with the prospect of three days and $30,000 devoted to the entertainment of the *Eurotrash.
1983 Time 10 Jan. 9/3 ‘We wanted to call the band Eurotrash,’ Stein says, ‘but, instead, they're called the Greencards.’ He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens.
1990 Los Angeles May 8/1 A haven of jet-setting privilege, beloved of American industrialists and Eurotrash alike, Santa Barbara has become the most chic, most sophisticated small city in the United States.
2003 Spectator 18 Jan. 34/3 Gilver Memmer is now a middle-aged wreck, his sparkling youth as a precocious painter and sartorial icon obliterated by drink, women and general Eurotrash excess.
Euro-
before vowels Eur-, word forming element meaning "Europe, European," from comb. form of Europe.
ORIGIN: from Europe , European -o-
☞ euro
Euro-
Prefix
- pertaining to Europe, especially as a political entity
Etymology
Shortened unetymologically from Europe- or Europo- in compounds- 20th century formation, perhaps echoing terms like Afro-, Indo-, Sino- etc.
An early attestation is the title The "Euro-Asian" or "Anglo-Indian" (Myles Standish & Co., 1911)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
English words prefixed with Euro-