📖 Определения и значения для слова coup
📒 a sudden change of government that is illegal and often violent
- He seized power in a military coup in 2008.
- to stage/mount a coup
- He was sentenced to death for his part in the attempted coup.
📒 the fact of achieving something that was difficult to do
- Getting this contract has been quite a coup for us.
- He pulled off a major diplomatic coup by winning agreement from all the warring factions on a permanent ceasefire.
- He managed to pull off a major diplomatic coup.