Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

de-baathification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-baathi-fi-ca-tion
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The policy of removing Baath party members from Iraqi government positions following the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"From informing the Bush administration that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops with flowers to urging a methodical and comprehensive de-Baathification program under which tens of thousands of people lost their jobs through guilt by association, she said, the errors in the exiles' counsel only mounted and multiplied."
"Mr Maliki has worsened the situation by allowing and encouraging purges of Iraqi politicians in the name of de-Baathification and largely discontinuing the US-initiated policy of working with Sunni tribal leaders and their militias - the so-called Sons of Iraq - to isolate al-Qaeda."

Etymology

From de- + Baath + -ification. Modeled on denazification, a similar concept employed against the conquered Nazi government following the Second World War.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

de-Ba'thification (alternative) de-Baʻthification (alternative) de-Ba'athification (alternative) deba'athification (alternative) de-Bathification (alternative) debathification (alternative)

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does de-baathification mean?: The policy of removing Baath party members from Iraqi government positions following the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Where does de-baathification come from?: From de- + Baath + -ification. Modeled on denazification, a similar concept employed against the conquered Nazi government following the Second World War.

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