English Explanatory Dictionary

dirty war

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A conflict (particularly one in South America) between a dictatorship against leftist revolutionaries or activists, typically characterized by extrajudicial repression like kidnapping, torture and enforced disappearance.
name
  1. The period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor.

Word forms

dirty war dirty wars the Dirty War

Etymology

Calque of Spanish guerra sucia.

Related words

Dirty War
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