Meaning of regime-change | Babel Free

Definitions

To overthrow or replace an existing government or ruling authority, often through external intervention or political pressure.

informal, transitive, uncommon

Examples

“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.”

“BTW, are they gonna' regime change Washington like they regime changed Baghdad? Let's hope. Any tickets for the hangings available yet? Ticketron seems to be sold out and isn't taking reservations.”

“Lastly, if we give up our nuclear weapons we have nothing left. America cut a deal with Muammar al-Qaddafi to give up his weapons, and look at Libya now. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein actually stopped developing weapons, and they regime-changed him. With nuclear weapons, I control my destiny. Without them, I am toast.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

CEFR level