English Explanatory Dictionary

salami tactics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The piecemeal removal or scaling back of something (especially political opposition); a gradual attack on an opposing position, group, etc.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

salami tactics

Etymology

Calque of Hungarian szalámitaktika, coined by Hungarian communist Mátyás Rákosi to describe the method, "cutting them off like slices of salami", by which the ruling Hungarian Working People's Party dealt with dissidents under his leadership.

Related words

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