Austerity (disambiguation)

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Austerity is a policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.

Austerity or Austere may also refer to:

Music

• Austere, a now-defunct Australian black metal duo that featured Tim Yatras as a member
• Austere (EDM group), an ambient electronic music group from Portland, Oregon
• Austere (EP), a 2002 EP by Sparta
• "Austere" (song), a 2008 song by The Joy Formidable
• Austerity (band), a funeral doom band

Steam locomotives

• Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST
• SR Q1 class
• WD Austerity 2-8-0
• WD Austerity 2-10-0

See also

• All pages beginning with auster
• All pages with a title containing auster*
• 1980s austerity policy in Romania
• Asceticism, a lifestyle characterized by abstinence and austerity from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals
• Austerity in Israel
• Special Period, Cuba