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-gate

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A scandal involving alleged illegal acts and often a cover-up, especially by government officials: Irangate.

[After Watergate.]

-gate

n combining form

indicating a person or thing that has been the cause of, or is associated with, a public scandal

[on the analogy of Watergate]

Translations

-gate

suf → -Skandal m, → -Affäre f; Irangate → der Iran(gate)-Skandal, die Iran(gate)-Affäre

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