Regime-change

Quick meaning: Regime-change is a verb meaning (informal, transitive, geopolitics, uncommon) To overthrow or replace an existing government or ruling authority, often through external intervention or political pressure.

Meaning

(informal, transitive, geopolitics, uncommon) To overthrow or replace an existing government or ruling authority, often through external intervention or political pressure.

Example Sentences

cool good luck developing their own. Oh and US also signed the Budapest Memorandum. Shame they broke that when they regime changed Ukraine in 2014

The French bombarded Damascus, which they had regime-changed in 1920, in 1925, 1926, and 1945, and they pacified the city with martial law during most of the 'peaceful' intervals.

It's true enough that we and the Soviets both did a lot of that during the Cold War, and we "regime changed" Iraq and Afghanistan through military force under Bush, Cheney and their neocons.

In the past USA history, we often failed to regime change a single person, but our failure was not as gross of a mistake as Mr. Bush who sends the entire USA military to change a one person regime.

Word Forms

• regime-changes
• regime-changing
• regime-changed

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