taihoa
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Maori [Term?] (“wait; do not hurry”).
Adjective
taihoa (not comparable)
- (New Zealand, politics) Slow and cautious; gradual.
- 1970, James A. Clifton, Applied anthropology: readings in the uses of the science of man
- He found in office that the taihoa policy was not the creation of his predecessor, but was imposed by the fundamental conditions of the problem to which every Native Minister has to address himself.
- 2004, Richard S. Hill, State authority, indigenous autonomy, page 101:
- The main aim of the Liberal government had always been pakeha land settlement, even through the taihoa period.
- 1970, James A. Clifton, Applied anthropology: readings in the uses of the science of man
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