Definition of big government
chiefly US
:government that is regarded as infringing upon the rights of individual citizens because of its extensive bureaucracy and intrusive regulations and policies
- Big government, in the minds of many Americans, had become the problem, not the solution.
- —Tom Morganthau
- Especially coming from a Republican, the Hyde proposals smack uncharacteristically of Big Government, critics say.
- —John Cloud
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