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de-Bathification

de-Bathification 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

Questions about de-Bathification

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

Words near de-Bathification in the dictionary

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

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