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Marshall Plan
noun
Informal.any comprehensive program for federally supported economic assistance, as for urban renewal.
Marshall Plan
noun
Official name: European Recovery Programme.a programme of US economic aid for the reconstruction of post-World War II Europe (1948–52)
Marshall Plan
A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. It was proposed by the United States secretary of state, General George C. Marshall.
Example Sentences
What came to be known as the Marshall Plan was such a brilliant success that Washington decided to apply the idea on a global scale.
Certainly nothing like it has been seen since 1948, when the United States solidified its postwar leadership and banked global goodwill with the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt war-ravaged Europe, including former enemies.
He called for a California version of the Marshall Plan, the American effort to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
MacArthur Park needs a champion and defender, if not a Marshall Plan.
While California Latinos have essentially been clamoring for the equivalent of a Marshall Plan to build the economy for the state’s largest ethnic group, the political overemphasis on those here illegally continues unabated.
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