metapolitefsi
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greek μεταπολίτευση (metapolítefsi, “regime change”).
Noun
[edit]metapolitefsi (uncountable)
- (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.