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regime-changing

regime-changing is the present participle and gerund of regime-change.

Meaning of regime-change

Verb

regime-change (third-person singular simple present regime-changes, present participle regime-changing, simple past and past participle regime-changed)

  1. (informal, transitive, uncommon) To overthrow or replace an existing government or ruling authority, often through external intervention or political pressure.
    • In the past USA history, we often failed to regime change a single person, but our failure was not as gross of a mistake as Mr. Bush who sends the entire USA military to change a one person regime.2004 May 25, Archimedes Plutonium, “USA, the society of Fat, Cut & Run; Iraq”, in talk.politics.theory (Usenet)

Questions about regime-changing

What is regime-changing the present participle and gerund of?
Regime-changing is the present participle and gerund of regime-change.

Words near regime-changing in the dictionary

  1. regime change
  2. regime changes
  3. regime-change
  4. regime-changed
  5. regime-changes
  6. regime-changing
  7. regimen
  8. regimenal
  9. regimens
  10. regiment
  11. regimentable

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