regime change
Noun
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Noun
regime change
- The overthrow of a government that is considered an illegitimate regime by means of external force (especially military might), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see regime, change
- (in American strategic language) rollback
- French: changement de régime
- German: Regimewechsel, Regimeänderung
- Italian: cambiamento di regime
- Portuguese: mudança de regime
- Russian: сме́на режи́ма
- Spanish: cambio del régimen
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