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Tur⋅got

  [tyr-goh]
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–noun
Anne Ro⋅bert Jacques  [an raw-ber zhahk] , 1727–81, French statesman, financier, and economist.
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Tur·got   (tŏŏr-gō', tür-)   
French economist. Appointed controller general under Louis XVI (1774), he was dismissed (1776) after proposing reforms that were unpopular with the aristocracy.
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