Countergovernment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A 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)."

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"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)."

Etymology

From counter- + government.

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