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de-Baʻthification

de-Baʻthification is the alternative spelling of de-Baathification.

Meaning of de-Baathification

Noun

de-Baathification (uncountable)

  1. The policy of removing Baath party members from Iraqi government positions following the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
    • From informing the Bush administration that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops with flowers to urging a methodical and comprehensive de-Baathification program under which tens of thousands of people lost their jobs through guilt by association, she said, the errors in the exiles' counsel only mounted...2006, Anthony Shadid, Night draws near: Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war, page 322

Origin of de-Baʻthification

From de- + Baʻth + -ification.

Questions about de-Baʻthification

What is de-Baʻthification the alternative spelling of?
De-Baʻthification is the alternative spelling of de-Baathification.

Words near de-Baʻthification in the dictionary

  1. de-bank
  2. de-banked
  3. de-banking
  4. de-banks
  5. de-Bathification
  6. de-Baʻthification
  7. de-bias
  8. de-biased
  9. de-biases
  10. de-biasing
  11. de-biassed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: de-Baʻthification (page history and authors); de-Baathification (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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