Masculine
corralito
Meaning
- (diminutive, form-of, masculine) diminutive of corral
- (masculine) playpen
- (Argentina, colloquial, masculine) corralito (economic measures taken in Argentina)
Concepts
Synonyms
parque para bebés
Translations
Hyphenated as
co‧rra‧li‧to
Etymology
From corral + -ito. In the economics sense coined by Argentine journalist and commercial pilot Antonio Laje in reference to the fact that money is locked in banks and can't escape, just like children are locked up in the playpen when the Argentine government prohibited withdrawing money from bank accounts for a year between 2001 and 2002.
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