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machtpolitik

machtpolitik noun: power politics.

Noun

machtpolitik (uncountable)

  1. Power politics.
    • Tensions have built up over the long years of Merkelian Machtpolitik and are emerging into the open, particularly in light of a mediocre vote-share at the election, yet another workaday coalition deal, the concession of the powerful finance ministry to the SPD, the allocation of the CDU’s few big...2008 February 12, J.C., “German politics is in revolt against the “Merkel method””, in The Economist

Forms of machtpolitik

alternative formMachtpolitik

Origin of machtpolitik

Borrowed from German Machtpolitik.

Questions about machtpolitik

What does machtpolitik mean?
Machtpolitik means power politics.
What part of speech is machtpolitik?
Machtpolitik is a noun.

Words near machtpolitik in the dictionary

  1. machrees
  2. Machrihanish
  3. Machs
  4. Macht
  5. machtesh
  6. machtpolitik
  7. Machts
  8. Machu Picchu
  9. machua
  10. machuas
  11. Machupo virus

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