metapolitefsi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μεταπολίτευση (metapolítefsi, “regime change”).

Noun

metapolitefsi (uncountable)

1. (now historical) A transitional period in modern Greek history after the fall of the military junta of 1967–74, leading to elections and democracy. [from 20th c.]
   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 345:

     In the event, metapolitefsi came to stand for far more wide-ranging transformations than those to the political system, drastic though these were.