countergovernment

English

Alternative forms

• counter-government

Etymology

counter- +‎ government

Noun

countergovernment (plural countergovernments)

1. (politics) A government set up in opposition to another government.
   • 1995, Catherine Samary, chapter 1, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered‎^[1], New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     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).