juntanoun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]
uk/ˈdʒʌn.tə//ˈhʊn.tə/us/ˈdʒʌn.tə//ˈhʊn.tə/a government, especially a military one, that has taken power in a country by force and not by election:
The military junta has/have today broadcast an appeal for calm.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- imperialism
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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