English
flexicurity
Blend of flexibility + security, coined by Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.
A blend of flexibility + security
Latin flectō ‘to bend, curve’
Latin flexibilis ‘flexible, pliant’
Late Latin flexibilitās
French flexibilité
English flexibility
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- ‘to heed’
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Latin sēcūrus ‘safe’
Latin sēcūritās ‘security’
Middle French securité
Middle English securite ‘the state of being protected’
English security
The story
Blend of flexibility + security, coined by Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.
Today it means
noun A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / flexicurity