how to pronounce perestroika

/ˌpɛɹəsˈtɹɔɪkə/

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perestroika is pronounced in four syllables

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pɛɹəstɹɔɪkə

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An example use of perestroika in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… after denouncing perestroika as a farce …”

meanings of perestroika

name:

  1. A program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
  2. The period of time in the Soviet Union during which these reforms were carried out and in effect.

noun:

  1. A situation where a small variation of parameters leads to a sudden change in properties.

perestroika frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word perestroika occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics perestroika can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that perestroika can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;

words that rhyme with perestroika

troika

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