putsch
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pʊtʃ/
putsch (plural putsches)
- A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
- Synonyms: coup, coup d'état
- Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
- 2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.
- "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."
- French: coup d'État, putsch
- German: Putsch
- Portuguese: putsch, golpe de estado, golpe
- Russian: путч
- Spanish: putsh, alzamiento, pronunciamiento, golpe, militarada
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