putsch
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9.9
- noun
- /pʊtʃ/
- Literature
:
golpe de estado
- Historians often study the causes and effects of the 1923 putsch in Germany.
- a military putsch
Examples
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The Dublin uprising was an attempted putsch by a segment of the Irish Volunteers who had been infiltrated by a small republican secret society known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRE).
Academic text (2000) -
Not until twenty people died in the beer-hall putsch of November 8, 1923, did Hitler achieve local notoriety.
Blog text (12) -
When the putsch comes from the left, will you be ready?
Blog text (19) -
Hitler thought his best chance for power lay in the Putsch in 1923.
Blog text (29) -
While in Turkey, I had landed in police custody following the military putsch.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Palinite Putsch might be coming for you.
Blog text (1) -
Obama will have to decide what to do about the conundrum posed by Hamas, which won the Palestinian elections in January 2006 and then took control of Gaza through a military putsch in June 2007.
Academic text (2009) -
Russia offers a sharply contrasting example in this regard: it rushed into the new century not on 11 September 2001 but on 21 August 1991, when the defeat of the military putsch in Moscow signaled the demise of the USSR.
Academic text (2002) -
The military launched a putsch to seize control of the government during the night.
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After the failed putsch, many leaders were arrested and the country fell into chaos.
Synonyms
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8.1
A sudden illegal act by a small group to take control of a government
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5.4
A sudden illegal action to seize control of a country's government by force
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4.6
A violent attempt to remove a government or ruler
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6.1
The removal of a leader or government from power, often by force
A sudden illegal takeover of a country's government by force
A sudden illegal change of government by a small group, often the military
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Etymology
Putsch comes from German-speaking Switzerland where it once meant a sudden 'push' or 'strike', and it is like the English word push. So a putsch is a quick, forceful 'push' against a government to remove leaders and take power.