caretaker government

English

Noun

caretaker government (plural caretaker governments)

1. (politics) A government that rules temporarily, for example after a motion of no confidence in a parliamentary system.

Coordinate terms

• interim government
• provisional government

Translations

temporary government

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 看守政府 (kānshǒu zhèngfǔ)

• Danish: forretningsministerium n (previous government after an election has been called), overgangsregering n (transitory government)
• Finnish: toimitusministeristö (fi)
• French: gouvernement d’affaires courantes m, gouvernement provisoire m
• Georgian: დროებითი მთავრობა (droebiti mtavroba), გარდამავალი მთავრობა (gardamavali mtavroba)
• German: Übergangsregierung (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forretningsministerium n

  Nynorsk: forretningsministerium n

• Polish: rząd tymczasowy m
• Swedish: expeditionsministär (sv) c, expeditionsregering c