Coups

Definition

coup /ku:/ n ( pl coups /ku:z/) ၁။ အာဏာသိမ္းမႈ။ put down/ foll a coup attempt ❍ The army mounted/ staged a coup (d'état). ❍ The Prime Minister was overthrown in a military coup. ၂။ ေအာင္ျမင္ေသာ လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္ စြမ္းေဆာင္ ခ်က္။ an attempted boardroom coup ❍ This contract represents a brilliant marketing coup for IBM. ❏ coup de grâce /ku: dǝ 'grɑ:s; US 'græs/ n ( pl coups de grâce /ku: dǝ 'grɑ:s/) ( French ) (ေဝဒနာအျပင္းအထန္ ခံစားေနရေသာသူကို မၾကည့္ရက္သျဖင့္) တစ္ခ်က္တည္း အသက္ ကုန္ေစျခင္း။ ( fig ) Poor exam results dealt the coup de grâce to (ie ended) his university career. ❏ coup d'état /ku: deÇ'tɑ:/ n ( pl coups d'état /ku: deÇ'tɑ:/) = COUP ၁

Examples

1. [a military/army coup] : There has been a series of military coups since the country gained independence.
2. [stage/lead/mount a coup] : A band of young disillusioned officers staged a coup.
3. [an attempted/failed/abortive coup] : He was jailed for his part in the attempted coup.
4. [coup against] : The 1996 coup against General Abacha
5. A boardroom coup
6. It’s a great coup to get Bjork to perform here.
7. [a publicity/propaganda/public relations coup] : This is a major publicity coup for the company.