N-SING (过度保护其公民，并使他们过于依赖政府的)保姆国家，保姆政府 If you refer to the government as the nanny state, you disapprove of it because you think it tries to protect its citizens too much and makes them rely on the state too much. (过度保护其公民，并使他们过于依赖政府的)保姆国家，保姆政府 [mainly British, disapproval]
The tussle to free the individual from the nanny state is still far from won.