junta
junta
Definition
junta (ho̵on′tə, jun′-, jo̵on′-)
noun
- an assembly or council; esp., a Spanish or Latin American legislative or administrative body
- a group of political intriguers; esp., such a group, of military men in power after a coup d'état
Etymology: Sp < L juncta, fem. of junctus, pp. of jungere, to join
junta
Synonyms
junta
n.
junta
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- lead: General Robert Gueï was asked to lead the subsequent junta.
- govern: Mella headed the provisional governing junta of the new Dominican Republic.
- establish: Supported by elements of the Nicaraguan army, the exiles invaded Honduras in February 1907 and established a provisional junta.
- head: José Augustin Arango, an attorney for the Panama Railroad Company, headed the junta.
- form: This time the army joined forces with the RUF and formed a ruling junta.
- give: The ILO has given the military junta until November 2004 to demonstrate real progress on the issue of forced labor.
Converse of subject
- rule: And, although the country is very strictly ruled by a military junta, people are allowed to attend church.
- replace: On August 7, 1978, Melgar Castro and his cabinet were replaced by a three-member junta.
- control: They ask how we can speak of free elections when the Saigon press is censored and controlled by the military junta.
Adjective modifier
- Burmese: Special_K wrote: A lot of people on the right like the Burmese junta.
- Argentine: April 17, 1982 Haig meets again with Argentine junta.
- military: I think I'd prefer a military junta instead of whatever the average reality TV viewer would most likely choose.
- Greek: Three days later the Greek junta in Athens fell from power.
- revolutionary: Their immediate goal was the establishment of a " revolutionary junta.
- Republican: Why do we call the Republican junta 's chief spokesmoron " Candidate X " ?
Modifies a noun
- government: It also was hoped that the assembly would incorporate all or most of the reforms decreed by the junta governments into the new document.
- leader: After the dictatorships fell in 1983, Argentina convicted five junta leaders of murder, torture and other crimes.
Noun used with modifier
- ruling: The ruling junta allows renovations of the Buddhist temples.
Possessives
- leader: Arango was considered the brains of the revolution, and Amador was the junta's active leader.
