military junta
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8.5
- noun
- /ˈmɪlɪˌtɛri ˈhʌntə/
- Literature
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junta militar
- For weeks after the storm, Myanmar's military junta blocked and delayed international relief efforts while doing little to aid survivors.
- the military junta took control
And then in that context, you know, we have a humanitarian crisis that's fuelled by the human rights crisis that the military junta has created.
- And then in that context, you know, we have a humanitarian crisis that's fuelled by the human rights crisis that the military junta has created.
Examples
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The military junta's methods against the left between 1980 and 1983 proved equally ill-advised.
Academic text (2007) -
The sanctions have failed to affect the elite, who continue to harness power from the military junta's powerful legacy.
Blog text (3) -
The military junta has remained in power and faces almost no challenge to its control.
Academic text (2001) -
The first targets of the military junta's attack on finance capital were moneylenders in rural areas.
Academic text (1992) -
The commission will investigate acts of torture and murder... that took place between 1975 and 1980... under the military junta.
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Meanwhile, the members of the 1976-83 military juntas were tried and convicted of human rights abuses, an unprecedented achievement for a Latin American country.
Academic text (2000) -
The constitution imposed by the military junta in 1980 formalized the authoritarian political system that had evolved after 1973.
Academic text (1991) -
In November 1973, Pinochet, as head of the military junta, charged a group of jurists with drafting a new constitution to replace the 1925 Constitution.
Academic text (1992) -
The argument is advanced even more forcefully for countries such as Argentina, notorious for the several thousand people who were made to disappear under brutal conditions during the years of the military juntas, and Uruguay, a country once famous for its democratic traditions, that became an oppressive Panopticon for its inhabitants during the twelve years of military rule.
Academic text (1993) -
The military junta took control of the country after a sudden coup.
Synonyms
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8.1
A group of military officers who take control of a country by force
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5.6
The army rules a country after it takes power
How Military-Controlled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'junta' denotes a ruling council or group that seizes power and the adjective 'military' simply specifies that this group is composed of armed forces; the combined meaning is directly compositional. This adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Military junta comes from Spanish, where the word junta means 'meeting' or 'council'. When soldiers met and took power, people called that ruling group a military junta, so today it means a group of military leaders who rule after a takeover.