military junta

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   a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power

   Synonymsjunta

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Questions about military junta

What does military junta mean?

military junta means "a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power".

What is another word for military junta?

Close synonyms include junta. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is military junta a common word?

military junta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.