English Explanatory Dictionary

Gleichschaltung

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The forced standardization of political and social institutions under an authoritarian regime, originally with reference to Nazi Germany.

Word forms

Gleichschaltung Gleichschaltungs

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Gleichschaltung (“synchronisation”).

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