putsch

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

• IPA^(key): /pʊt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

putsch (plural putsches)

1. 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"."

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:putsch.

• schtup

• Putsch (dated)

Borrowed from German Putsch.

• IPA^(key): /putʃ/

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• Hyphenation: putsch

putsch m (plural putschen)

1. a putsch, a coup d'état

   Synonyms: coup, staatsgreep

• putschist

Borrowed from German Putsch.

• IPA^(key): /putʃ/

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putsch m (plural putschs)

1. putsch; military coup d'état

• “putsch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Alemannic German Putsch.

putsch m (plural putsches)

1. putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)

   Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

Unadapted borrowing from German Putsch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈput͡ʃ/ [ˈput͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -utʃ

putsch m (plural putsch or putsches)

1. putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)

   Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

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