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- verb intransitive, idiomatic To become a
recluse and stop contributing to one's society, especially in the form oftaxes by reducing one's productivity or work or by refusing to follow societalnorms that one believes to be unjust.
Etymologies
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After John Galt, a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.
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