watergate scandal

1. 1.

   a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974

   SynonymsWatergate

   Broaderscandal

Questions about watergate scandal

What does watergate scandal mean?

watergate scandal means "a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974".

What is another word for watergate scandal?

Close synonyms include Watergate. 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 watergate scandal a common word?

watergate scandal 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.