caretaker governmentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌkeə.teɪ.kə ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us/ˌker.teɪ.kɚ ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/UKa government that has power for a short period of time until a new one is chosen
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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