countergovernment

noun

A government set up in opposition to another government.

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Meanings

nouncountergovernment (plural countergovernments)

plural countergovernments · alternative counter-government

  1. governmentA government set up in opposition to another government.

    The Yugoslav federation was foreshadowed in the way armed struggle was organized and by the countergovemment that was forged in armed struggle, embodied in 1943 in the underground parliament called AVNOJ (after its Serbo-Croatian initials).

    1995, Catherine Samary, chapter 1, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 49

Origin

From counter- + government.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “countergovernment,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countergovernment.

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