militariat
militariat noun: a ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.
Noun (1)
militariat (plural militariats)
- A ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.
- It is noted that some military coups, especially in West Africa, have been carried out, not by senior officers, but by junior & noncommissioned officers, ie, the militariat, which occupies a class position in the army analogous to the working class in society.1998, Leo P. Chall, Sociological Abstracts - Volume 46, Issue 6, page 3825
- Irregulars of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) shared both the subaltern class location and lumpen culture of the militariat in Sierra Leone.2004, J. Kandeh, Coups from Below: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa, →ISBN
Noun (2)
militariat (plural militariats)
- A ruling class formed by an alliance between military officers and bureaucrats.
- The employers and the landlords were upheld in their exploitation of the masses by militariats, who, as masters of their politically and militarily separate territories, moreover, taxed the people outrageously and allowed their soldiers to live upon them and ravage them practically at will.1930, Henry Francis James, Thorsten D. Sellin, China, page 232
- In Nigeria, this failure is expressed by the coming into position of dominance of the militariat, that is the alliance of top military officers and bureaucrats, local and foreign capital (private sector) and traditional rulers that has been dominant in Nigerian politics, especially from the...2001, Nigerian Journal of International Affairs - Volumes 25-27, page 56
Examples of militariat in a sentence
- The militariat generally lack a "social consciousness" (Kandeh 2004, 3), aw well as the intellectual skills, organizational expertise, and military discipline necessary for governance.2010, John Conteh-Morgan, New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres, →ISBN, page 116:
- We should emphasise that the militariat enlists both military and civilians members.2004, Democracy and Development:
Forms of militariat
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Origin of militariat
Blend of military + proletariat.
Questions about militariat
- What does militariat mean?
- Militariat means a ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.
- How do you use militariat in a sentence?
- The militariat generally lack a "social consciousness" (Kandeh 2004, 3), aw well as the intellectual skills, organizational expertise, and military discipline necessary for governance.
- What part of speech is militariat?
- Militariat is a noun.
- What is the plural of militariat?
- The plural of militariat is militariats.
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