vuoto di potere
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “vacuum of power”.
Noun
[edit]vuoto di potere m (plural vuoti di potere)
- (politics) power vacuum
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa, Garzanti Libri:
- Se Mubarak si fosse dimesso, creando un improvviso vuoto di potere, molto probabilmente non sarebbero stati loro a riempirlo.
- If Mubarak stepped down, creating a sudden power vacuum, they weren't the ones most likely to fill it.
- (literally, “If Mubarak had resigned, creating a sudden power vacuum, it would very probably not have been them to fill it.”)