Defection

Synonyms for "defection" (147 found)

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Closest matches (30)

Strong matches (44)

Related words (73)

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Translations

34 translations across 19 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἀποστασία noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • отстъпничество noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Catalan

1 entries
  • defecció noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 叛變 /叛变 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • 叛逃 noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • 變節 /变节 noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Dutch

2 entries
  • desertie noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • overlopen noun (act or incidence of defecting)

French

1 entries
  • défection noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Georgian

2 entries
  • განდგომა noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • განდგომილება noun (act or incidence of defecting)

German

3 entries
  • Abtrünnigkeit noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • Treuebruch noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • Überlaufen noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • pembelotan noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Irish

1 entries
  • tréigean noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Italian

2 entries
  • defezione noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • diserzione noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 変節 noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Korean

1 entries
  • 변절 noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Latin

2 entries
  • dēfectiō noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • transfugium noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • defeção noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • deserção noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Romanian

1 entries
  • defectare noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Russian

4 entries
  • дезерти́рство noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • изме́на noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • наруше́ние noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • отсту́пничество noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Turkish

3 entries
  • ayrılma noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • firar noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • ihanet noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Welsh

2 entries
  • enciliad noun (act or incidence of defecting)
  • gwrthgiliad noun (act or incidence of defecting)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My government continues to treat dissent as defection.

Source: tatoeba (2830184)

military defection

Source: wiktionary

political defection

Source: wiktionary

mass defection

Source: wiktionary

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