nostrum

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nostrum englannista suomeksi

  1. patenttilääke

  1. Substantiivi

  2. patenttilääke

nostrum englanniksi

  1. A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.

  2. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

  3. (quote-book)

  4. (RQ:Doyle Sign of the Four)

  5. (quote-web)

  6. An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.

  7. (quote-journal)|issn=1356-7748|passage=And not because some clatch of bureaucrats in Strasbourg or Luxembourg have issued yet another directive, but because Europeans are recognising that 19th century nostrums are not solutions to 21st century problems—on the contrary, they are the problem—and it's time to encourage competition, risk taking, democracy and meritocracy, and, dare I say it, dreaming about a different, better future.

  8. {{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=A.C. Grayling|title=Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century

  9. {{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=Sean Corrigan|title=The Wasteland|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108021242/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/wasteland-how-central-planning-broke-all-markets-and-what-we-can-do-fix-them

  10. of us; (inflection of)

  11. (inflection of)